Thread: read directory contents

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    read directory contents

    hello folks,

    sorry for a newbie question:

    I am reading directory contents with opendir() and readdir().
    everything is fine if I just need filenames. but what if I need creation dates, and size of the files?

    does dirent.h provide this?

    thanks!

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    Look up findfirst() and findnext() in DIR.H.

    Although they're neither ANSI nor POSIX, they do work.

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    Actually if ur programming in linux/unix do a "man stat" in a terminal u'll get all the relevant information you need there.
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    thanks, people.

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