TR2 file library

[JohnW@Wessex]

Btw, it's a good thing that they didn't use + to append paths, because now you can write something like this:

path dir, subdir;
std::string stem, suffix, extension;
//...
path fullPath = dir / subdir / (stem + suffix + extension);

I don't see that '+' would be a problem in this case.
You are adding a path to a path and a string to a path. This would be surely be accomodated by overloads of the '+' operator.

std::path &operator + (const std::path& lhs, const std::path& rhs);

std::path &operator + (const std::path& lhs, const std::string& rhs);

std::path dir, subdir;
std::string stem, suffix, extension;

std::path fullPath = dir + subdir + (stem + suffix + extension);