id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
8535	problem with paths that have whitespace in boost::program_options	bdahi@…	Vladimir Prus	"This seems to be a known bug since at least 2008. Full description and suggested solution is mentioned in the external link below:

[boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/program-options-Problem-with-paths-that-have-spaces-td2576490.html]

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.

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."	Bugs	new	To Be Determined	program_options	Boost 1.53.0	Problem		path, empty space, program_options	mail@…