How to read a dirctory?

How to read a dirctory?

Moving Shadow

Member #5,973

July 2005

Is it possible to find out what files exist in a directory in C/C++?

Evert

Member #794

November 2000

Of course!

Moving Shadow

Member #5,973

July 2005

Mind giving me an example!?

miran

Member #2,407

June 2002

Read the Allegro manual! The part about files.

al_findfirst
al_findnext
al_findclose

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LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

findfirst/findnext

For example if you want to print the nhame of every file in a directory:

struct ffblk f;
int done = findfirst("*.*", &f, FA_HIDDEN | FA_SYSTEM);
while (!done)
{
  printf("%s\n", f.ff_name);
  done = findnext(&f);
}

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Quote:

Read the Allegro manual! The part about files.

al_findfirst
al_findnext
al_findclose

He did say C/C++, not C/C++ and Allegro.

Moving Shadow

Member #5,973

July 2005

Excellent, excellent.....now.....how would I copy and paste a file, given the file name?

A J

Member #3,025

December 2002

copy filename destination

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Thomas Fjellstrom

Member #476

June 2000

When not using allegro, I prefer:

opendir
readdir
closedir

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

And under windows, FindFirst/FindNext or something with those substrings.

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Murat AYIK

Member #6,514

October 2005

I will print out this thread;D

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