C++ file manipulation library?

[scootermaster]

I'm using straight Linux g++ (version 3.something, I believe) and I just need a simple file handling library. For example, if on the command-line, someone enters in ../my/dir/foo.txt I want to be able to strip the directory part and the file name part. That's actually the biggest thing, but anything else that will help with handling files would be cool.

The reason is I have this project that takes input files, and I put them in a centralized directory for cleanlieness. But then I write about 3 files based in the input filename. So based on foo.txt, I write foo.1.csv and foo.1.dot or whatever, but if I just use the filename and append, you can see how they get written to the old directory. Again, for cleanliness, it would be nice to stick them in their own dirs.


Help?

 

[Crusty]

Just find the location of the last / in the filepath, and do a substring from there to the end.

 

[Markbnj]

The C++ Boost libraries have a lot of that kind of utility code in them. Although I am not very familiar with them, it looks like this might be of interest:

http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
The C++ Boost libraries have a lot of that kind of utility code in them. Although I am not very familiar with them, it looks like this might be of interest:

http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

Weird. I thought I checked boost. I'm going to be using their graph library.

But this seems like it might very well do it.

Thanks so much!

 

[blackllotus]

Look at the recls library

EDIT: (Its not in boost)

 

[programmer]

strrchr is your friend ... maybe you could do something like this without a third-party lib


#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char* path = 0;
char* filename = 0;

if (argv[1])
{
path = argv[1]; // just for clarity

filename = strrchr(path, '/');
if (filename) {

*filename++ = 0;

// this will null terminate path and then
// move the filename pointer to the first
// char of the filename... which could be
// a null terminator!

if (*filename == '\0')
filename = 0;
}

printf("The path is %s\n", path ? path : "null");
printf("The filename is %s\n", filename ? filename : "null");
}

return 0;
}