C++ How to check the last modified time of a file

Question

I\'m caching some information from a file and I want to be able to check periodically if the file\'s content has been modified so that I can read the file again to get the new c

Answer 1

You can use boost's last_write_time for that. Boost is cross platform.

Here's the tutorial link for that.

Boost has the advantage that it works for all kinds of file names, so it takes care of non-ASCII file names.