Opening and closing directories

[Luis E. Cuadrado]

Hello:
I was wondering if there is a way in C++ to open and close directories.
I'm thinking to make a program that looks for files in the hard drive. Any
answers is welcome.

Have a nice day,

Luis E.

[Pete]

Hi Luis,

Here's a little hack I wrote to read through directories on your hard drive.
I call it a "hack" because it uses printf() and its ilk for output rather
than cout because CStrings don't display correctly with cout on the version
of VC6 I'm running (haven't put in SP4 yet). Anyways, here it is.
Be sure to tell the compiler to use MFC in a shared library or you'll get
linker errors when you compile.

Enjoy!
*****************
#include <afx.h>
#include <string>
#include <list>
using namespace std;

class Filenames {
public:
CString Filename;
};

void ShowDir(CString &Dir);

void main()
{
// Be sure to use the double backslash between directories or
// the compiler will misinterpret them. Remember \\ resolves
// to a single \ when the string is compiled.
CString Dir = "C:\\Temp"; // Set this to some small test folder of yours.

ShowDir(Dir);
}

// How much should this directory be indented? Must be global.
int indent = -2;

void ShowDir(CString &Dir)
{
Filenames Work;
list <Filenames> NameList;
list <Filenames>::const_iterator it;
int i;
CString tmp;
CFileFind finder;
BOOL bWorking;

indent += 2;
bWorking = finder.FindFile(Dir + "\\*.*");
while(bWorking)
{
bWorking = finder.FindNextFile();
tmp = finder.GetFileName();
if(tmp != "." && tmp != "..") { // Ignore "." and ".." files
for(i = 0; i<indent; i++)
putchar(' ');
printf("%s",tmp);
if(finder.IsDirectory()) { // Lots of other methods available too.
Work.Filename = tmp;
NameList.push_back(Work);
printf(" <dir>\n");
}
else
printf(" (%d)\n",finder.GetLength());
}
}

// Only now can we call ourselves to look at subdirectories.
// If we did this above, the current finder class would loose its place.
for(it = NameList.begin(); it != NameList.end(); it++) {
CString SubDir = Dir + "\\" + it->Filename;
ShowDir(SubDir);
}
indent -= 2;
}

[Luis E. Cuadrado luiscuadrado]

"Pete" <grandpete@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Luis,
>
>Here's a little hack I wrote to read through directories on your hard drive.
> I call it a "hack" because it uses printf() and its ilk for output rather
>than cout because CStrings don't display correctly with cout on the version
>of VC6 I'm running (haven't put in SP4 yet). Anyways, here it is.
>Be sure to tell the compiler to use MFC in a shared library or you'll get
>linker errors when you compile.
>
>Enjoy!
>*****************
>#include <afx.h>
>#include <string>
>#include <list>
>using namespace std;
>
>class Filenames {
>public:
> CString Filename;
>};
>
>void ShowDir(CString &Dir);
>
>void main()
>{
> // Be sure to use the double backslash between directories or
> // the compiler will misinterpret them. Remember \\ resolves
> // to a single \ when the string is compiled.
> CString Dir = "C:\\Temp"; // Set this to some small test folder of yours.
>
> ShowDir(Dir);
>}
>
>// How much should this directory be indented? Must be global.
>int indent = -2;
>
>void ShowDir(CString &Dir)
>{
> Filenames Work;
> list <Filenames> NameList;
> list <Filenames>::const_iterator it;
> int i;
> CString tmp;
> CFileFind finder;
> BOOL bWorking;
>
> indent += 2;
> bWorking = finder.FindFile(Dir + "\\*.*");
> while(bWorking)
> {
> bWorking = finder.FindNextFile();
> tmp = finder.GetFileName();
> if(tmp != "." && tmp != "..") { // Ignore "." and ".." files
> for(i = 0; i<indent; i++)
> putchar(' ');
> printf("%s",tmp);
> if(finder.IsDirectory()) { // Lots of other methods available too.
> Work.Filename = tmp;
> NameList.push_back(Work);
> printf(" <dir>\n");
> }
> else
> printf(" (%d)\n",finder.GetLength());
> }
> }
>
> // Only now can we call ourselves to look at subdirectories.
> // If we did this above, the current finder class would loose its place.
> for(it = NameList.begin(); it != NameList.end(); it++) {
> CString SubDir = Dir + "\\" + it->Filename;
> ShowDir(SubDir);
> }
> indent -= 2;
>}
>