How to get names of folders in specific folder

How can I get the name of folders in a specific folder and the number of folders in that specific folder?
and then cycle through them?

There's an FAQ to that effect: http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1044780608

Yeah but I don't know the name of the folder and that faq requires one to search for =\

Sorry, I misread your question. (Or maybe it was edited.)

You coould use the directory walker to find the names of the files and directories. Then you could try chdir()ing to each one to see if it's a directory. Or you could use stat/fstat to see if it is a directory. (chdir() and fstat() are part of the POSIX standard.) [edit] stat might be best: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/man...ttributes.html [/edit] [edit=2] Here's a better link: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/spos...alls/stat.html [/edit]

[edit=3] I wrote a (convulted) program a long time ago that does this, you can see it if you like: http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/myprogs/df.htm [/edit] [edit=4] Never mind, it doesn't use stat. Okay, I'll stop editing now. :) [/edit]

Try putting in a * for the folder/file name. If there's a function to find names by giving a name

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Originally Posted by dwks

Sorry, I misread your question. (Or maybe it was edited.)

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It was edited to add "and cycle through them"
EDIT:and is there any other simpler way in C++ to find directory contents?

Well then I guess I just misread it. :)

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Originally Posted by twomers

Try putting in a * for the folder/file name.

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Uh . . . twomers, that's not going to help.

[edit] You edited it. Oh well. Look what I did. :) [/edit]

Why not? I remember using a file/folder thing from andrewxw's site and I threw in a * and it listed everything in the directory

Something from here http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/index.html

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EDIT:and is there any other simpler way in C++ to find directory contents?

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Not really.

argh this is my code

Code:

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Look in new post

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How hard do you think it is going to be to incorporate that in to my code?

Oh, you're using the Win32 version. Okay. Then you'd want the win32 stat, whatever that is. I don't know what it's called.

To be more speific

http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/...irstFile1.html
http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/...irstFile2.html
http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/...irstFile3.html

is all about logging directories

If you look carefully, the FAQ detects subdirectories.

I believe boost::filesystem can handle this.

>> I believe boost::filesystem can handle this.
I think you know it can! I have to investigate this boost jazz.

Alright now what about logging the number of folders?
EDIT:I have this so far

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#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int main()
{

        HANDLE hFind;
        WIN32_FIND_DATA FindData;

        bool AllUserNamesModified=false;
        int AmountOfLoops=0,AmountOfFolders;
        std::string UserName="",FolderName,FileName;

        while(AllUserNamesModified==false)
        {
                hFind=FindFirstFile("%APPDATA%\\aim\\*",&FindData);

                FolderName=FindData.cFileName;

                FolderName="%APPDATA%\\aim\\"+FolderName+"\\*";

                AmountOfFolders=/*get amount of folders in the FolderName directory*/

                if(UserName=="")
                {
                        hFind=FindFirstFile(FolderName.c_str,&FindData);

                        UserName=FindData.cFileName;
                }

                else
                {
                        hFind=FindNextFile(hFind,&FindData);

                        UserName=FindData.cFileName;
                }

                if((UserName=="bartcache")||(UserName=="Resources"))
                {
                       
                }

                else
                {
                        FileName=FolderName+UserName+"\\info.html";

                        std::ofstream a_file(FileName.c_str(),std::ios::trunc);

                        std::string ClientSide=UserName+" Has just been disproven about profiles stored on servers or only editable to AIM.exe";

                        a_file<<ClientSide;

                        a_file.close();
                }

                if(AmountOfLoops==AmountOfFolders)
                {
                        AllUserNamesModified=true;
                }

                else
                {
                        AmountOfLoops=AmountOfLoops+1;
                }

        }
        FindClose(hFind);
        return 0;
}

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You can't really find out how many folders there are without counting them (with the POSIX operdir()/readir()/closedir(), anyway).

I don't think the * applies to folders