Thread: Displaying files in a particular path in listbox????

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    Unhappy Displaying files in a particular path in listbox????

    I have two list boxes.In first listbox i am supposed to display all the directories in C drive and in second listbox if any directory is doubleclicked in listbox1 all the bmp files should be displayed in second listbox.

    I have made first list box in which i am successfully displaying all the directories in C drive and My directories come in form [Windows],[Documents and Settings] ie with braces.

    So further by concatenation i am concatenating C:/[Windows]/*.*
    because of these square braces it is not detecting the path from where to fetch
    the file from.

    My concatenation thing is working in itself as i am able to display all the bmp files if I simply concatenate C:/Windows/*.*

    Someone please help.

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    I suppose the easiest thing to do would be to replace the brackets with slashes. Windows typically ignores extra slashes.
    Code:
        char path[] = "C:\\[Windows]\\";
        char *p = path;
        for (; *p; ++p)
        {
            if (*p == '[' || *p == ']')
                *p = '\\';
        }
    gg

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