Welcome to my weblog. I write to help give me perspective, to see my thinking serialized, and to give me a chance to look at my ideas from different angles. Sometimes I vent. Sometimes I’m processing. Sometimes I just want to be helpful.
HOWTO: Directory recursion in Boost (and other tips)
Boost’s Filesystem library is an incredible resource: it abstracts paths, directories, and stat results. It simplifies coding shell problems in C++, it’s portable, and is maintained by a large community of contributors. The one downside of Boost is that some of its newer libraries are poorly documented. ((Something I want to contribute to.)) Until I have time to get involved in the Boost project, I’m going to post examples here. Traversing a directory tree ...