I am iterating through all the files in a folder and just want their names in a string. I want to get a string from a std::filesystem::path
. How do I do that?
My code:
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <filesystem>
namespace fs = std::experimental::filesystem;
int main()
{
std::string path = "C:/Users/user1/Desktop";
for (auto & p : fs::directory_iterator(path))
std::string fileName = p.path;
}
However I get the following error:
non-standard syntax; use '&' to create a pointer to a member.
To convert a std::filesystem::path
to a natively-encoded string (whose type is std::filesystem::path::value_type
), use the string()
method. Note the other *string()
methods, which enable you to obtain strings of a specific encoding (e.g. u8string()
for an UTF-8 string).
C++17 example:
#include <filesystem>
#include <string>
namespace fs = std::filesystem;
int main()
{
fs::path path{fs::u8path(u8"愛.txt")};
std::string path_string{path.u8string()};
}
C++20 example (better language and library UTF-8 support):
#include <filesystem>
#include <string>
namespace fs = std::filesystem;
int main()
{
fs::path path{u8"愛.txt"};
std::u8string path_string{path.u8string()};
}