Thread: Easiest way to browse for contents of a folder and store them in a string vector

  1. 04-29-2009 #1
    stanlvw
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    Easiest way to browse for contents of a folder and store them in a string vector

    What would be the easiest method of finding how many as well as all the filenames present in a selected directory? After that, I'm pretty sure I can store the information into a vector of some sort.

    Thanks in advance.
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    It depends on your platform, though there are cross platform libraries available such as Boost.Filesystem (which would make for a pretty easy way to do what you want to do, I think).
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