https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/8535 <p> This seems to be a known bug since at least 2008. Full description and suggested solution is mentioned in the external link below: </p> <p> [boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/program-options-Problem-with-paths-that-have-spaces-td2576490.html] </p> <p> In short: when a boost::filesystem::path is used directly to retrieve a path parameter, if the path has a whitespace -- regardless of whether / or \ is used, or the whitespace is escaped, or the path is double-quoted -- a parsing error occurs. </p> <p> The current workaround is to use string and then convert that to boost::filesystem::path using the = operator of the path class, however this looks more of a "bug" in program_options rather than new feature in lexical_cast module since in program_options lexical casting of string to path is obviously failing and should not have been considered. </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/8535 Trac 1.4.3 Georg Sauthoff <mail@…> Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:04:32 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/8535#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/8535#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>cc</strong> <span class="trac-author">mail@…</span> added </li> </ul> Ticket Vladimir Prus Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:49:27 GMT