Thread: extracting file names

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    extracting file names

    hi folks,

    Could any of you tell me how to extract the names of the files in a specific folder?

    my problem is that i have a folder containing 2000 image files and i need to create a text file with all of their names in it.

    (compiling with visual c++)

    thanks in advance,
    Cathal

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    http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1044780608
    This should help.

    if you don't need to do it programmatically
    if you are using windows and can bring up a command prompt you can just pipe the contents to a file by typing

    dir *.jpg >>filename.ext
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