id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 4702,replace_extension truncates path,cheesy4poofs@…,Beman Dawes,"I've recently switched all our code to filesystem v3 and added BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATE on our builds for good measure. One of the changes I had to fix was our use of change_extension(), which was modified to use the replace_extension() method. However, some of our code started failing and I tracked it down to this example: boost::filesystem::path p(""C:\\database\\test\\filename""); p.replace_extension("".db""); std::cout << p.string() << std::endl; // OUTPUT - C:\database\test\filename.db p = ""C:\\database.1\\test\\filename""; p.replace_extension("".db""); // bug? std::cout << p.string() << std::endl; // OUTPUT - C:\database.db As you can see, in the second example, it truncates the path and assumes the directory name ""database.1"" has the extension that needs replacing. change_extension() did not behave this way. Is this the expected behavior? ",Bugs,closed,To Be Determined,filesystem,Boost 1.44.0,Problem,fixed,replace_extension,