std::formatter<std::filesystem::path>

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< cpp‎ | filesystem‎ | path
Defined in header <filesystem>
template < class CharT >
struct formatter< std::filesystem::path, CharT> ;
(since C++26)

The template specialization of std::formatter for the std::filesystem::path class allows users to convert a pathname to its textual representation using formatting functions. This specialization is debug-enabled

Format specification

The syntax of format specifications path-format-spec is:

fill-and-align (optional) width (optional) ? (optional) g (optional)

fill-and-align and width have the same meaning as in standard format specification

The ? option is used to format the pathname as an escaped string.

The g option is used to specify that the pathname is in generic-format representation.

Member functions

set_debug_format
enables to format the pathname as an escaped string
(public member function)
parse
parses the format specifier as specified by path-format-spec
(public member function)
format
writes the formatted output as specified by path-format-spec
(public member function)

std::formatter<std::filesystem::path>::set_debug_format

constexpr void set_debug_format();

Allows the current object to format pathname as an escaped string.

std::formatter<std::filesystem::path>::parse

constexpr auto parse( std::basic_format_parse_context <CharT> & ctx )
- > std::basic_format_parse_context <CharT> :: iterator ;

Parses the format specifiers as a path-format-spec and stores the parsed specifiers in the current object.

Returns an iterator past the end of the path-format-spec.

std::formatter<std::filesystem::path>::format

template < class FormatContext >

auto format( const std::filesystem::path & p, FormatContext& ctx ) const

- > FormatContext:: iterator ;

Let s be p.generic <std:: filesystem :: path :: value_type > ( ) if the g option is used, otherwise p.native(). Writes s into ctx.out() as specified by path-format-spec

For character transcoding of the pathname:

  • The pathname is transcoded from the native encoding for wide character strings to UTF-8 with maximal subparts of ill-formed subsequences substituted with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER if
  • Otherwise, no transcoding is performed if std::is_same_v < typename path:: value_type, CharT> is true
  • Otherwise, transcoding is implementation-defined.

Returns an iterator past the end of the output range.

Notes

Feature-test macro Value Std Feature
__cpp_lib_format_path 202403L (C++26) formatting support for std::filesystem::path

Example

See also

(C++20)
defines formatting rules for a given type
(class template)