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It must not include any directory separators (like a slash). On Windows the file extension may be omitted. The function will then try the various file extensions for executables on Windows to find filename.</p> 43<p> 44 45</p> 46<div class="variablelist"><table border="0" class="variablelist compact"> 47<colgroup> 48<col align="left" valign="top"> 49<col> 50</colgroup> 51<tbody> 52<tr> 53<td><p><span class="term">Parameters:</span></p></td> 54<td><div class="variablelist"><table border="0" class="variablelist compact"> 55<colgroup> 56<col align="left" valign="top"> 57<col> 58</colgroup> 59<tbody> 60<tr> 61<td><p><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput">filename</code></span></p></td> 62<td><p>The base of the filename to find</p></td> 63</tr> 64<tr> 65<td><p><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput">path</code></span></p></td> 66<td><p>the set of paths to search, defaults to the "PATH" environment variable.</p></td> 67</tr> 68</tbody> 69</table></div></td> 70</tr> 71<tr> 72<td><p><span class="term">Returns:</span></p></td> 73<td><p>the absolute path to the executable filename or an empty string if filename isn't found </p></td> 74</tr> 75</tbody> 76</table></div> 77</div> 78</div> 79<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 80<td align="left"></td> 81<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006-2012 Julio M. 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