Before i get marked as duplicate, all similar questions i could find have answers prior to the introduction of std::filesystem, and either use platform-specific code or Boost::filesystem. I'm...

The following piece of code aims to strip the first part of a path in case it exists: #include <filesystem> std::filesystem::path strip_prefix(std::filesystem::path p) { if (auto it{p.beg...

Consider for example file_size. To get the size of a file we will be using std::filesystem::path p = std::filesystem::current_path(); // ... usual "does this exist && is this a file" boil...

I encountered a problem when upgrading from #include <experimental/filesystem> to #include <filesystem>. It seems that the std::filesystem::path::wstring method is not returning the sam...

What is the difference between std::filesystem::copy() and std::filesystem::copy_file() in this code? #include <filesystem> void testing() { const std::filesystem::path src = "foo.txt"; c...

I have a project that is currently locked into Visual Studio 2015. However, I want to write code that is as standards-conforming as possible. I want to use std::filesystem but it didn't make it i...

If I use functions like absolute() I always get a path which contains quotation marks. Is there a way within the filesystem functions to remove this quotation marks which enables it to use with e....

std::filesystem on C++17, and std::experimental::filesystem for many pre-C++17 compilers, are based on boost::filesystem and almost all of it is obvious to port to the newer std. But I see no std:...