Re: How can I enumerate directory content in MFC?

From:
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Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 26 May 2008 01:40:02 -0700
Message-ID:
<260AFA4B-F4FC-4815-9077-401220E2BDD5@microsoft.com>
thanks Giovanni and Dave
problem solved!
unfortunately MSDN(microsoft in general) search capability is so poor that
sometimes one has to be ultra creative and lucky to find something that he
looks for. I tried "directory mfc" folder mfc" "directory" "folder " and
many other keywords but instead of answering my query MSDN results were
singing about .Net
Thanks a lot guys, you both helped much.
Thanks for the code Giovanni.

Best regards

"Giovanni Dicanio" wrote:

"Electronic75" <Electronic75@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel
messaggio news:32B26F76-F1B6-420D-9F02-CE798989EC03@microsoft.com...

have to list directory
content and then look for names.


You may consider the following simple code I developed.
The function ListFilesInDirectory takes as input the directory path, and
returns the list of files in the directory (using std::vector as a container
for filenames).

You can use like this:

<code>

  CString directory = _T("C:\\SomeData");
  std::vector< CString > filenames;

  ListFilesInDirectory( directory, filenames );

  // filenames contain the list of files in input directory

</code>

ListFilesInDirectory implementation follows:

<code>

//========================================================================
// Given a directory pathname, returns the list of files (full pathname)
// present in that directory. The returned list can be empty, if the
// directory is empty.
//
//
// Note - subdirectories:
// ----------------------
// If there are subdirectories under specified directory, they are
// ignored by this function.
//
//
// Note - vector:
// --------------
// The file path list is returned in a std::vector container, so
// <vector> STL header must be #included in StdAfx.h.
//
//========================================================================
void ListFilesInDirectory(
    LPCTSTR dirName,
    std::vector< CString > & filepaths )
{
    // Check input parameters
    ASSERT( dirName != NULL );

    // Clear filename list
    filepaths.clear();

    // Object to enumerate files
    CFileFind finder;

    // Build a string using wildcards *.*,
    // to enumerate content of a directory
    CString wildcard( dirName );
    wildcard += _T("\\*.*");

    // Init the file finding job
    BOOL working = finder.FindFile( wildcard );

    // For each file that is found:
    while ( working )
    {
        // Update finder status with new file
        working = finder.FindNextFile();

        // Skip '.' and '..'
        if ( finder.IsDots() )
        {
            continue;
        }

        // Skip sub-directories
        if ( finder.IsDirectory() )
        {
            continue;
        }

        // Add file path to container
        filepaths.push_back( finder.GetFilePath() );
    }

    // Cleanup file finder
    finder.Close();
}

</code>

HTH,
Giovanni

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