Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #8946: filesystem::directory_iterator returns incorrect listing

version changed

anonymous — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:41:23 GMT

version Boost 1.53.0 → Boost 1.54.0

l.alebarde@… — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:44:56 GMT

Replying to anonymous: Sorry, change made by myself. So, same result on versions 1.52.0, 1.53.0, and 1.54.0

nikita.trophimov@… — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:03:51 GMT

You need to increment bfs_dir_i after all of the actions in the loop:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
using namespace std;
namespace bfs = boost::filesystem;
int main () {
	system("mkdir mydir");
	system("touch mydir/file1");
	system("touch mydir/file2");
	bfs::directory_iterator bfs_dir_i_end;
	bfs::directory_iterator bfs_dir_i("mydir");
	while (bfs_dir_i != bfs_dir_i_end) {
		bfs::file_type type = (*bfs_dir_i).status().type();
		bfs::path source = (*bfs_dir_i).path();
		cout << source << "  " << type << endl;
		++bfs_dir_i;
	}
}

l.alebarde@… — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:26:09 GMT

Thanks nikita. The documentation should be modified then (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/filesystem/v3/doc/reference.html#Class-directory_iterator):

To iterate over the current directory, use directory_iterator(".")

This lead me to increment first the iterator.