hello, is there any elegant way to get the equivalent of system("dir *./b/w > list_of_shows.txt ") then get the text inside of a string ?

using external command of system ( winXP) I m enclenching and flashing a dos window...
I was thinking to do something like tree>my_string, but commands like dir or tree seems not existing in gcc

thanks for the answer !!!

This is not elegant nor equivalent, but might be enough.

FILE *f = NULL;
char line[256] = "";
char dir_result[4096] = "";
system("dir c:\\my_path\\ > c:\\file.txt");
f = fopen ("C:\\file.txt", "r");
while (fgets(line, 256, f) != NULL) {
  strcat(dir_result, line);
}
fclose(f);

printf(dir_result);

FA_DIREC?

al_findfirst("*", &info, FA_DIREC);

Were you asking how to just see the folders? Above + al_findnext gives you the directories.

Sure: It's a command task on PCs, but that's not what C++ was designed for.

thanks to evey body for the answer, always a pleasure!!!

Some do, but even in those it's not uncommon to have a radically different file system than the PC one, which makes it impossible to design a unified interface to.

Of course, it occurs to me know that I'm confusing C++ and the standard library. Sooo, I suppose a better reason is simply that Microsoft didn't think it was worthwhile to implement the functions in HoHo's link.