Dump Directory

[sunnyko]

I have many directorys and many files in each of them.
I want to write a C program to read all these files and extract some important words inside them out. But there is a problem

How can I access a directory in C program ?
How can I change the directory to another directory ?

How to get all the files' name in a specific directory ?

Please help me.
I really need your great help.

[pukur123]

Refer to dir.h and there you will get all the functionalities you needed.

[smk]

Hi,

Using FindFirstFile and FindNextFile functions you can browse through the directory tree and can get all the files names. These functions will return WIN32_FIND_DATA structure, which has the information about the file attributes.The below example will be helpfull.

 
 
#include "windows.h"
 
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
  HANDLE hFind;
 
  printf ("Target file is %s.\n", argv[1]);
 
  hFind = FindFirstFile(argv[1], &FindFileData);
 
  if (hFind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
    printf ("Invalid File Handle. Get Last Error reports %d\n", GetLastError ());
  } else {
    printf ("The first file found is %s\n", FindFileData.cFileName);
    FindClose(hFind);
  }
 
  return (0);
}
 
 

[sunnyko]

Thank you very much !
Really big help !