RE: Getting list of files in a directory

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Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:13:02 -0700
Message-ID:
<242E732F-3298-4E76-84A5-0363003DC563@microsoft.com>
Been a while since I've done this but if I remember correctly you have to the
a FindNextFile before you get the filename. I have included a code snippet
from an FTP program that I did a while back. It looks for directories then
files ...

pathWildcard=fullpath+"*.*";
CFileFind finder;

BOOL bWorking = finder.FindFile(pathWildcard);

while (bWorking)
{
   bWorking = finder.FindNextFile();

   if ( finder.IsDirectory() && !finder.IsDots() )
   {
      HTREEITEM itm=AddItem (fullpath+finder.GetFileName(), parent);
      InsertItem("",itm);
   }
}

bWorking = finder.FindFile(pathWildcard);

while (bWorking)
{
   bWorking = finder.FindNextFile();

   if ( !finder.IsDirectory() && MatchExtension(finder.GetFileName()) )
   {
      AddItem (fullpath+finder.GetFileName(), parent );
   }
}

Andy

"paul@paullee.com" wrote:

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to write a routine that will enable me to find all files
matching a wildcard in a specified directory- in the example below, it
should return all files ending with .bmp in the C:\Logos\ directory -
however, the fd.cFileName is blank - whats wrong?

Thanks for your help

Paul

------------

    WIN32_FIND_DATA fd;
    HANDLE hDir;

    char * filePath = "C:\\Logos\\";
    char * bitmapWildcard = "*.bmp";

    strcpy( filePath, bitmapWildcard); \\ Look for C:\Logos\*.bmp

    hDir = FindFirstFile(bitmapWildcard, &fd);

    do
    {

                    char * fileName = fd.cFileName;
                    char * fullPath = strcpy ( filePath, fileName);

        CString FileName( fileName ); // This will be things like
mojo_bankrupt.bmp etc.

        CString truncatedFileName = FileName.Left( FileName.Find(".") );

                   // This will be just mojo_bankrupt- which is what we
want
                   //(no preceding path, and no trailing .bmp

                                 // Other code snipped

    } while ( FindNextFile (hDir, &fd) );

    FindClose( hDir );

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