std::experimental::filesystem::absolute,std::experimental::filesystem::system_complete(3)

NAME
std::experimental::filesystem::absolute,std::experimental::filesystem::system_complete - std::experimental::filesystem::absolute,std::experimental::filesystem::system_complete

Synopsis
   Defined in header <experimental/filesystem>
   path absolute( const path& p, const path& base = current_path() (1) (filesystem TS)
   );
   path system_complete(const path& p); (2) (filesystem TS)
   path system_complete(const path& p, error_code& ec);
   1) Returns absolute path of p relative to base according to the following rules:
              * If p has both root name and root directory (e.g. "C:\users", then the
                path is returned, unmodified.
              * If p has a root name not followed by a root directory (e.g.
                "C:text.txt"), then base is inserted between p's root name and the
                remainder of p. Formally, p.root_name() /
                fs::absolute(base).root_directory() /
                fs::absolute(base).relative_path() / p.relative_path() is returned,
              * If p has no root name, but has a root directory (e.g.
                "/var/tmp/file.txt" on a POSIX system or "\users\ABC\Document.doc" on
                Windows, then the root name of base, if it has one, is prepended to p
                (on a POSIX system, p is not modified, on a Windows system,
                "\users\ABC\Document.doc" becomes "C:\users\ABC\Document.doc".
                Formally, fs::absolute(base).root_name() / p is returned.
              * If p has no root name and no root directory (e.g. "../file.txt", then
                the entire base is prepended to p. Formally, absolute(base) / p is
                returned.
   2) Obtains the absolute path that identifies the file that the OS file opening API
   would access given the pathname p. On POSIX systems, this is equivalent to (1) with
   the default base (fs::current_path()). On Windows systems, each logical drive has
   its own current working directory, and so if p is not already absolute and has a
   root name component (e.g. "E:filename.txt", that drive's current working directory
   is used, which may have been set by an earlier executed program.

Parameters
   p - path to convert to absolute form
   base - path (not necessarily absolute) to serve as the starting location
   ec - out-parameter for error reporting in the non-throwing overload

Return value
   Returns an absolute (although not necessarily canonical) path formed by combining p
   and base as described above.

Exceptions
   The overload that does not take a error_code& parameter throws filesystem_error on
   underlying OS API errors, constructed with p as the first argument, base as the
   second argument, and the OS error code as the error code argument. std::bad_alloc
   may be thrown if memory allocation fails. The overload taking a error_code&
   parameter sets it to the OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes
   ec.clear() if no errors occur. This overload has
   noexcept specification:
   noexcept

Notes
   On systems that support root names (e.g. Windows), the result of calling absolute on
   a relative path that has a root name (e.g. "D:file.txt" when the root name of base
   is different will usually result in a non-existent path.

Example
// Run this code
 #include <iostream>
 #include <filesystem>
 namespace fs = std::experimental::filesystem;
 int main()
 {
     fs::path p = "C:cl.exe";
     std::cout << "Current path is " << fs::current_path() << '\n'
               << "Absolute path for " << p << " is " << fs::absolute(p) << '\n'
               << "System complete path for " << p << " is " << fs::system_complete(p) << '\n';
 }

Possible output:
 Current path is "D:/local/ConsoleApplication1"
 Absolute path for "C:cl.exe" is "C:/local/ConsoleApplication1/cl.exe"
 System complete path for "C:cl.exe" is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\cl.exe"

See also
   canonical composes a canonical path
             (function)