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Started by ZStechly August 01, 2005 06:14 PM

1 comment, last by Shannon Barber 18 years, 8 months ago

ZStechly

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August 01, 2005 06:14 PM

Does anyone have an algorithm, C/C++/Java preferably, that when called, will list all the directories on a drive? Something like... D drive: D:\test_folder d:\test_folder\maps d:\programs ... etc. Thanks for any help, I just can't figure it out and its been driving me crazy.

Spudder

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August 01, 2005 06:37 PM

A Win32 specific solution is FindFirstFile, you can check the dwFileAttributes member of the WIN32_FIND_DATA struct after the call to check that the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY bit is set.

For an ANSI C solution you can use opendir() and readdir() which works in much the same way as above. Alternatively you could look into boost::filesystem which also seems to do the job as well.

Shannon Barber

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August 01, 2005 07:41 PM

I second boost, the particular object you want is boost::filesystem::directory_iterator

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