listing files in a directory

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David Jacques

I am trying to get a list of all files of a certain extension type on disk
to do some processing in a loop. The code needs to be portable to UNIX, so
I need to use plain C++ functionality. Does anyone know of a way to do this
?
Any URLs, code snippets, etc ? Is this even possible ?
 
K

Karl Heinz Buchegger

David said:
I am trying to get a list of all files of a certain extension type on disk
to do some processing in a loop. The code needs to be portable to UNIX, so
I need to use plain C++ functionality. Does anyone know of a way to do this
?
Any URLs, code snippets, etc ? Is this even possible ?

This is not possible.
Plain C++ has no functionality to access a file system so your code
will be non-portable anyway.

But there is light: boost has encapsulated file system functions
for various operating systems in a consistent way.
www.boost.org
 
E

Evan Carew

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David,

Try Boost's filesystem library. It most likely has the filesystem
primitives you need in the portable format you want.

http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

Evan

David said:
I am trying to get a list of all files of a certain extension type on disk
to do some processing in a loop. The code needs to be portable to UNIX, so
I need to use plain C++ functionality. Does anyone know of a way to do this
?
Any URLs, code snippets, etc ? Is this even possible ?

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