How do you get a list of files currently in a directory??

[Rob_S]

I have a program which saves time stamped files into time stamped
directories.

When I want to read these files, I get the current date and check for the
existence of the directory using....

while (!(_chdir(dirna me)) == 0)
{reduce the directory name (time) and check again}

This method quickly finds the last directory but I don't know anything about
the contents of the directory.

I thought it would be easy to load the contents of this directory into a
list which could be used to open files.
I have been using dir command for years and took it for granted that there
is a function to read directory contents but I can't seem to find any easy
way to do this.

How can directory contents be read?
Is there a function or class?
The only thing I can think of is to write the filenames to a database as
they are being written and then check for their existence in a directory.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Bob

[Rolf Magnus]

Rob_S wrote:

I have a program which saves time stamped files into time stamped
directories.

When I want to read these files, I get the current date and check for the
existence of the directory using....

while (!(_chdir(dirna me)) == 0)
{reduce the directory name (time) and check again}

This method quickly finds the last directory but I don't know anything
about the contents of the directory.

I thought it would be easy to load the contents of this directory into a
list which could be used to open files.
I have been using dir command for years and took it for granted that there
is a function to read directory contents but I can't seem to find any easy
way to do this.

How can directory contents be read?
Is there a function or class?

Not in standard C++. The _chdir() function you're using above isn't a
standard C++ function either. So you have to resort to system-specific
functions (For a POSIX compliant system, they would e.g. be opendir(),
readdir(), closedir()), which are best discussed in a newsgroup about the
operating system/compiler/library you are using.

[Michiel.Salters]

Rolf Magnus wrote:

Rob_S wrote:

How can directory contents be read?
Is there a function or class?

Not in standard C++. The _chdir() function you're using above isn't a
standard C++ function either. So you have to resort to system-specific
functions

Or a portable library, like boost::filesyst em. (Which is mostly
off-topic here,
but www.boost.org has enough documentation).
See also the FAQ about the standard library and non-standard libraries.

HTH,
Michiel Salters