comparing files and folders

Hi,

I am still a newbie with this.. n i have searched a lot on net to get me something which will help me compare files and folders.. date n time stamp and size.. but instead of a programmatic help they just show the software lists..

can anybody guide me few steps towards this..

any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanx,
Vivek

OS : Win2K
Compiler : Borland C++ 5.5

Look at either the header file io.h or dir.h. I'm not sure which it is for Borland as I am on DevC++ but in either of the two there should be a struct called wither _finddata_t or ffblk which has variables in it that correspond to attributes such as readonly subdir and so forth as well as time created, size, time last accessed, and name. I don't know the specifics yet as I am still learning how to use this header file to do pretty much what you are saying but I believe you would do something along the line of this:

Code:

#include<dir.h>
struct _finddata_t find

/*-----code-----*/
int done,x=1;
char *fin="Search Complete";
done = _findfirst(filename, &find);
while (done != (-1))
{
      printf(" File %s occured %d time(s)\n",filename,x++);
      if (done == _A_SUDDIR)
      { /*sub directory constant may be different for your compiler*/
             chdir(find.name)
             done = _findnext( done, &find);
             printf(" File %s occured %d time(s)\n",filename,x++);
       }
      done = _findnext( done, &find);
}
_findclose(done);
puts(fin);
exit(0);
}

That is not the best so will someone else please critique it.