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C++17 STL Cookbook

You're reading from   C++17 STL Cookbook Discover the latest enhancements to functional programming and lambda expressions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120495
Length 532 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The New C++17 Features FREE CHAPTER 2. STL Containers 3. Iterators 4. Lambda Expressions 5. STL Algorithm Basics 6. Advanced Use of STL Algorithms 7. Strings, Stream Classes, and Regular Expressions 8. Utility Classes 9. Parallelism and Concurrency 10. Filesystem

Getting canonical file paths from relative paths

In the last recipe, we already canonicalized/normalized paths. The filesystem::path class is, of course, capable of more things than just holding and checking paths. It also helps us in composing paths from strings easily, and also to decompose them again.

At this point, path does already abstract operating system details away from us, but there are also certain instances where we still need to keep such details in mind.

We will see how to deal with paths and their composition/decomposition by playing around with absolute and relative paths.

How to do it...

In this section, we will play around with absolute and relative paths in order to see the strengths of the path class...

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