Overview
Discover the main elements of the C++17 filesystem library including std::filesystem::path, directory_entry, and directory iterators. Learn how this library extends file and directory manipulation capabilities directly within the standard library, enhancing your skills to manage paths, file attributes, and directory traversal in C++17 applications.
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Filesystem Overview
While the Standard Library lacked some important features, you could always use Boost with its dozens of sub-libraries and do the work. The C++ Committee decided that the Boost libraries are so important that some of the systems were merged into the Standard. For example, smart pointers (although improved with the move semantics ...