Thread: File name reading question

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    File name reading question

    I want to be able to put all the file names of a specific extension into a string array so i can load them into my program.

    How dose that work?

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    have to use a file search of some sort...then maybe build a data base...
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    If you're doing this in WIN32API look up the functions FindFirstFile
    and FindNextFile in the Help or in a book.

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    > I want to be able to put all the file names of a specific extension into a string array
    Well the way you find filenames is by using

    For DOS/Windows
    findfirst and findnext
    You'll need to look up the exact names, there are several variants, depending on which specific MS OS you have

    For Unix/Linux
    opendir, readdir, closedir are the functions you want
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    I looked it up on MSDN, and im still not quite getting it.

    I tried something like this, but it just crashes the program when it runs.

    WIN32_FIND_DATA * data;
    FindFirstFile("*.txt",data);
    filename = data->cFileName;

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    if filename is a char* you will need to use strcpy() instead of = .
    secondly salem has posted an excellent directory walker at least twice.A search will throw that up.You will learn much from that small piece of code.
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    > WIN32_FIND_DATA * data;
    > FindFirstFile("*.txt",data);
    That's because you should have written...

    WIN32_FIND_DATA data;
    FindFirstFile("*.txt", &data);

    When something takes a * parameter, it's not good enough to simply declare a variable of that type, you've got to make sure it points somewhere.
    Or, you declare a variable without the *, and you pass &var to the function instead.


    > secondly salem has posted an excellent directory walker at least twice.
    *blush*
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