Question

Is there a simple way to get the application name using Boost (maybe with boost::program_options?)

The thing will be like this:

Having argv[0] = "c:\foo\bar\appname.exe"

I want to have var1 = "appname"

Answer 1

You can use boost::filesystem to extract the name from the path. that would look something like this:

#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

boost::filesystem::path p = argv[0];
std::string var1 = p.stem().string();