How to access Folders and its all contents in Windows XP using C

[vangasd]

Hi,

This is Sasidhar. I would like to know how can I access Folders and its contents in Windows XP using C. I am using Turbo C++ 3.0 as a compiler. Which header files do i need to use for my problem. What are the topics should i know to work with files and folders. Where can I get a full description on Files and Folders topic for C Programming language? Please help me in this.

Regards,
Sasidhar.

[horace1]

Hi,

This is Sasidhar. I would like to know how can I access Folders and its contents in Windows XP using C. I am using Turbo C++ 3.0 as a compiler. Which header files do i need to use for my problem. What are the topics should i know to work with files and folders. Where can I get a full description on Files and Folders topic for C Programming language? Please help me in this.

Regards,
Sasidhar.

Your question is a bit vauge but I assume you need a program which will read the list of files in a directory. The following program (which works OK using Turbo C) does this and lists the files to the screen

// list directory, see
//  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/readdir.html
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main()
{
DIR *dirp = opendir(".");
int errno=0;
struct dirent * dp;
while (dirp) {
    errno = 0;
    if ((dp = readdir(dirp)) != NULL) {
       printf("file name %s \n",dp->d_name); 
    } else {
        if (errno == 0) {
            closedir(dirp);
            return 0;
        }
        closedir(dirp);
        return -1;
    }
}
}