how to list files in a folder?
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Heya, I know this is something that you see on the internet, but I can't seem to get anything to do it...
I am using mingw32, is there a (GCC) way (i.e. a set of functions in one of the libs) that will let me find out all of the files in a directory? I know there are things for windows, and for *nix, but I want to do it in a way that works everywhere ... or is this one of those places where you need to write a separate path for each platform ...
There is a windows specific way if you want.
it looks like this:
havn't compiled it so i can't promise anything but give it a shot (it will recurse through sub directories t0o.
~guyaton
it looks like this:
WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;HANDLE hFind;printf ("Target file is %s.\n", argv[1]);hFind = FindFirstFile("*\0", &FindFileData);if (hFind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { printf ("Invalid File Handle. GetLastError reports %d\n", GetLastError ()); return (0);} do{ printf ("The first file found is %s\n", FindFileData.cFileName); if( FindFileData.dwFileAttributes == FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY ) { if( strcmp( FindFileData.cFileName, ".\0" ) && strcmp( FindFileData.cFileName, "..\0" ) ) { printf( "\n" ); //should recurse here WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData1; HANDLE hFind1; string st; st.append( FindFileData.cFileName ); st.append( "\\*" ); printf( "string=%s\n", st.c_str() ); hFind1 = FindFirstFile( st.c_str(), &FindFileData1 ); cout<< "\n%s\n"<< FindFileData1.cFileName <<endl; cout<< "%S\n" << FindFileData1.cAlternateFileName <<endl; } }}while( FindNextFile( hFind, &FindFileData ) );FindClose(hFind);havn't compiled it so i can't promise anything but give it a shot (it will recurse through sub directories t0o.
~guyaton
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Quote:Original post by SiCrane
I would use boost::filesystem.
hmm, looks a bit heavy for what i want to do, also seems that the library will need to be rebuilt for every platform ... thats what i was trying to avoid ...
Quote:Original post by guyaton
There is a windows specific way if you want.
it looks like this:
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havn't compiled it so i can't promise anything but give it a shot (it will recurse through sub directories t0o.
~guyaton
thanks, that will work for windows ...
i guess that this just isn't something that can be done without relying on a specific system API, or including more libraries in my application ... thanks anyway.
Quote:Original post by Malchivus
seems that the library will need to be rebuilt for every platform ... thats what i was trying to avoid ...
I fail to see why that would be a problem since you need to rebuild your application for every platform. Also you don't need to build boost as a library. It's perfectly feasible to add the four or five source files that go into making up boost::filesystem as source files in your application.
Quote:Original post by MalchivusQuote:Original post by SiCrane
I would use boost::filesystem.
hmm, looks a bit heavy for what i want to do, also seems that the library will need to be rebuilt for every platform ... thats what i was trying to avoid ...
Given that there is no standard API that will work on every system you will have to rely on a third party library. If you're not interested in using Boost, you can use the Apache Portable Runtime instead.
Having to rebuild the library is really a minor issue when compared to the need to rewrite and rebuild your code.
Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
sicrane..you worship boost don't you?..lol
It works, provides a lot of widely needed facilities... why not use it? I see nothing wrong with that.
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i didn't understand that there was no prtable way to do it. i thought that somewhere burried in gcc(mingw) there would be something. oops
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