How to know if a listed file item is a dir

I need to list files and directories, including subfolders, filtering output, all common functions regarding filesystem. For all this I've chosen the "stat" function and "scandir" function but I seem to lack of a way to know if a listed item of scandir is a directory or not. Of course, "not having extension" is not a good way to solve this, since files do not necessarily do...

Also it'd be great if someone would point me to a good specific source on this subject, with snippets covering most common functions. I'm not lazy to code it, but is highy improbable that I'll make a more efficient version than most out there...

Thanks in advance,

Mariano Lopez-Gappa (20) from Argentina

depends on operating system -- MS-Windows use FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile(), or *nix use opendir() and readdir(). Search these boards for those functions because there have been several examples posted. In MS-Windows os you can limit the files returned by FindFirstFile and FindNextFile by providing search criteria with wild cards, such as "*.txt". Don't know if you can do that with *nix. In *nix, use stat() to find out if the file is a directory. MS-Windows returns that information in the structure returned by FindFirstFile and FindNextFile, so stat() is unnecessary. If it is a directory then you can call the function recursively to process it.

ya, thing is that I don't want to include windows.h since something tells me it won't work on my 486 where I'll be coding... scandir and stat do work

if its windows os what makes you think it won't work? FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() work on all version of MS-Windows 95 and later. I never heard of scandir(). must be some compiler-specific function you are using.

ya, scandir is linux-specific probably

it's not windows, it's DOS, that's why it's probably not gonna work

what compiler are you using -- each compiler has its own way of searching for files. Turbo C uses findfirst() and findnext() which are declared in dir.h. MSVC 1.52C uses something like _dos_findfirst() in dos.h.

sorry I didn't reply earlier, too many exams plus lazy memory. Ima probably use BCC32 from Borland, the free version, so I guess it's just looking into BCC32 documentation...thx for the insight Ancient Dragon you've been very helpful.