View the contents of a directory source code
This snippet submitted by finnepower on 2005-08-06. It has been viewed 28884 times.
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This is how you get the contents of a directory in Windows with C++. It's useful if your program needs to know stuff about your files.
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
HANDLE hFind = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
char DirSpec[MAX_PATH]; // directory specification
cout<<"Path: ";
cin.get(DirSpec, MAX_PATH);
cout<<"\n";
strncat(DirSpec, "\\*", 3);
hFind = FindFirstFile(DirSpec, &FindFileData);
if(hFind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
cout<<"Error: invalid path\n";
}
cout<<FindFileData.cFileName<<"\n";
while(FindNextFile(hFind, &FindFileData) != 0)
{
cout<<FindFileData.cFileName<<"\n";
}
FindClose(hFind);
return 0;
}
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