std::filesy...path::format(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this is std::filesystem::path::format — the enum from the C++ Standard Libary manual, page tag std::filesy...path::format(3) ✨. It’s literally the little enum that tells std::filesystem::path string constructors how to read pathnames, no cap.

🔥 Synopsis 🔥

enum format {

    native_format,
    generic_format,  (since C++17)
    auto_format

};

It determines how string representations of pathnames are interpreted by the constructors of std::filesystem::path that accept strings. 💅

🌸 Constants 🌸

• native_format — Native pathname format.
• generic_format — Generic pathname format.
• auto_format — Implementation-defined pathname format, auto-detected where possible.

🦋 Notes 🦋

On POSIX systems, there is no difference between native and generic format. fr fr, they’re the same there.

👀 See also 👀

• constructor — constructs a path (public member function).

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