reading files from a directory

[sreenivasan alakappan]

Hello,
I need some help to do this following requirement.

I need to serach for *.txt files from a particular windows directory,
read the contents of the file. After doing so, then I need to delete
this file and wait until anohter *.txt file is written into this
directory by somebody else.

So, the core requirement is whenever there is a *.txt, i need to read
and process the file after which i need to delete to avoid processing
it again. I think I need to use threads in this and polling. But, I am
not very sure. Any siggestions will be useful.

Thanks,
Sreeni.

 

[CBFalconer]

I need some help to do this following requirement.

I need to serach for *.txt files from a particular windows
directory, read the contents of the file. After doing so,
then I need to delete this file and wait until anohter *.txt
file is written into this directory by somebody else.

The following should help, if carefully read:

 

[Malcolm]

I need some help to do this following requirement.

I need to serach for *.txt files from a particular windows directory,
read the contents of the file. After doing so, then I need to delete
this file and wait until anohter *.txt file is written into this
directory by somebody else.

You need platform specific extensions to do this. ANSI C doesn't even define
any directory functions, let alone anything for polling.