NAME

std::filesystem::path::generic_string,std::filesystem::path::generic_wstring, - std::filesystem::path::generic_string,std::filesystem::path::generic_wstring,

Synopsis

std::filesystem::path::generic_u32string

template< class CharT, class Traits =
std::char_traits<CharT>,
(since
class Alloc = std::allocator<CharT> > (1) C++17)
std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>

generic_string( const Alloc& a = Alloc() ) const;
std::string generic_string() const;
std::wstring generic_wstring() const;
std::u16string generic_u16string() const;
std::u32string generic_u32string() const;
(2) (since (since
std::string generic_u8string() const; C++17) C++17)
(3) (until
C++20)
std::u8string generic_u8string() const; (since
C++20)

Returns the internal pathname in generic pathname format, converted to specific
string type. Conversion, if any, is specified as follows:

* If path::value_type is char, conversion, if any, is system-dependent. This is
the case on typical POSIX systems (such as Linux), where native encoding is
UTF-8 and string() performs no conversion.
* Otherwise, if path::value_type is wchar_t, conversion, if any, is unspecified.
This is the case on Windows, where wchar_t is 16 bit and the native encoding is
UTF-16.
* Otherwise, if path::value_type is char16_t, native encoding is UTF-16 and the
conversion method is unspecified.
* Otherwise, if path::value_type is char32_t, native encoding is UTF-32 and the
conversion method is unspecified.
* Otherwise, if path::value_type is char8_t, native encoding is UTF-8 and the
conversion method is unspecified.

The / character is used as the directory separator.

1) All memory allocations are performed by a.
3) The result encoding in the case of u8string() is always UTF-8.

Parameters

a - allocator to construct the string with

Type requirements

-
CharT must be one of the encoded character types (char, wchar_t
, char8_t
(since C++20), char16_t and char32_t)

Return value

The internal pathname in generic pathname format, converted to specified string
type.

Exceptions

May throw implementation-defined exceptions.

Example

// Run this code

#include <cstddef>
#include <filesystem>
#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>
#include <span>
#include <string_view>

void print(std::string_view rem, auto const& str) {
std::cout << rem << std::hex << std::uppercase << std::setfill('0');
for (const auto b : std::as_bytes(std::span{str})) {
std::cout << std::setw(2) << std::to_integer<unsigned>(b) << ' ';
}
std::cout << '\n';
}

int main()
{
std::filesystem::path p{"/家/屋"};
std::cout << p << '\n';

print("string : ", p.generic_string ());
print("u8string : ", p.generic_u8string ());
print("u16string : ", p.generic_u16string());
print("u32string : ", p.generic_u32string());
// print("wstring : ", p.generic_wstring ());
// gcc-11.0.0 2020.12.30 still fails, clang-10 - ok
}

Possible output:

"/家/屋"
string : 2F E5 AE B6 2F E5 B1 8B
u8string : 2F E5 AE B6 2F E5 B1 8B
u16string : 2F 00 B6 5B 2F 00 4B 5C
u32string : 2F 00 00 00 B6 5B 00 00 2F 00 00 00 4B 5C 00 00