Re: Problem in using SHFileOperation
I am using SHFileOperation in my application to copy one folder with
its entire contents to another location. My function is this-
bool CopyDir(LPCTSTR szExistingDir, LPCTSTR szNewDir)
{
SHFILEOPSTRUCT sfo={0};
sfo.wFunc = FO_COPY;
sfo.pFrom = szExistingDir;
sfo.pTo = szNewDir;
sfo.fFlags = FOF_SILENT | FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_NOERRORUI ;
int rc=SHFileOperation(&sfo);
return(rc==0)
}
Now I am storing existing directory and New directory in string
variables as-
str1="C:\\fol1\\fol2";
str2="D:\\fol3";
now using one local convert function, I am changing every backslash( \
) into double backslash( \ \) and passing as-
CopyDir(str1.c_str(),str2.c_str());
If you put string literals in code, you use double backslashes because a
backslash is an escape code.
the string literal itself will only contain 1 slash.
if you replace all '\' characters with 2 '\' characters, it cannot work.
your strings should contain single slashes, not double slashes.
have you looked at the code from the article on www.codeproject.com that i
linked to when you posted your original question?
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Bruno van Dooren
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