Thread: Basic folder creation

Hello folks. Just now learning to program. I writing a basic program that with a text input and button click will create a top-level folder (named with text input) and series of subfolders, and sub-subfolders in a directory. (each named appropriately.) Forgive me if this is a dumb question.

Would it be better to use the script in the code to just create new set of folders with the correct naming scheme, or would it better better to just "copy" the folders over from a master directory and then just renaming the top level folder? Or some other method or combination of the two?

My thought is that if you have a "master directory" you could easily add sub folders to be copied without accessing the source code. This master directory would only then be accessible to the appropriate personnel.


Thanks for your input

Windows 10. This is just proof of concept that i can show to someone else for a full build out. So I'm just trying to do it as basic and wasily as possible

I have absolutely no idea how to implement this... and for the love of god no one in houston has programming classes without a bunch of hassle and nothing at night.. -_- back to my book....

Originally Posted by Elysia

C++ has it too in form of the Filesystem TS.

Yeah, I don't trust anything in C++17 to actually come out. If anything, I think they might just repackage C++14 as 17 and call it a day.

It looks to me like the experimental file system TS is available with C++14.

Jim

Code:

bool create_directory(const char* pn)
{
        #ifdef _WIN32
        return CreateDirectoryA(pn, NULL);
        #endif
        #ifdef __unix__
        return mkdir(pn, 0775);
        #endif
}

You're welcome