Read files without extension

[guriwashere]

Hi, I need some help with a little program.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
main()
{
	  DIR *d;
 	  struct dirent *dir;
 	  char c, *name[100];
 	  int i, cont=0;

	  d = opendir ("C:/Test"); 
	  for (i=0; ((dir = readdir (d))!= NULL); i++)
	  	  	{
   		  	name[i] = strdup (dir-> d_name);
   		  	cont ++;						 
   		  	printf ("C:\\Test\\%s\n", name[i]);
		  	}
	  closedir (d); 
	  system ("pause");
}

The main problem, is that that PATH is full of .zip files,
Example File.zip, File2.zip

and I need to create the array, without de .zip extension, so the array would be with the names only,

File, File 2 .... etc...

Is there a way to do that??

Thanks

[sean]

There are several methods. If you know for sure that your files will always have an extension, you can do a sscanf on each to extract the parts on either side of the period. You could also go through the string and get the index of the period, and then splice the string from 0 to that point.

[MacGyver]

If you don't care about the extensions, you could just blast them out with the usage of a helper function.

void eraseExtension(char *name)
{
    char *p = strchr(name, '.');

    if(p != NULL)
    {
        *p = '\0';
    }
}

Might need to be careful about passing it filenames of "." or "..", but the idea is what counts.

This is not ideal if you actually need to keep the extensions at a later point, though.

[guriwashere]

Thanks!!

[ZaC]

You could try name[i]=strtok(name[i],".");
But this will work only if names of your files are without points except for the one of the extension.
Another way: name[i][strlen(name[i])-4]='\0';
And this will work only if the extension is formed by 3 letters.

PS: to use strdup you should include string.h

PPS: sorry for my english

[quzah]

Might need to be careful about passing it filenames of "." or "..", but the idea is what counts.

This is not ideal if you actually need to keep the extensions at a later point, though.

You might also have to consider file names with more than one . such as: foo.bar.baz, in which case strrchr would be preferred.


Quzah.

[matsp]

You could try name[i]=strtok(name[i],".");
But this will work only if names of your files are without points except for the one of the extension.
Another way: name[i][strlen(name[i])-4]='\0';
And this will work only if the extension is formed by 3 letters.

PS: to use strdup you should include string.h

PPS: sorry for my english

Acutally, strdup() is not a standard function, so including string.h will not guarantee that it is there. For example MS compilers do not include this.

--
Mats

[ZaC]

Acutally, strdup() is not a standard function, so including string.h will not guarantee that it is there. For example MS compilers do not include this.

--
Mats

Good to know... so the standard way should be using memcpy or strncpy, isn't it? Which is better? Why?

[MacGyver]

For a quick implementation to duplicate a string, I would probably opt for malloc + strcpy since it's so straightforward.