Re: Replacing
FindFirstFile is a windows function, but _findfirst is a C Runtime function.
I'm not sure if the implementation of each on is different or not, but if it
was me I would go with FindFirstFile.
CFileFind class is a wrapper around FindFirstFile and FindNextFile.
If you are developing an MFC application I would tell you go with CFileFind.
But at the end they all do the same thing pretty much the same way.
AliR.
"Gerry Murphy" <gerry_murphy@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Hello, all,
I'm looking for some advice about how best to proceed with some code I'm
porting from 16-bit MFC to 32-bit ( target = VC++ 6.0/MFC).
There are a lot of instances in the existing code that use the archaic
dos-style _dos_findfirst/_dos_findnext to find all files that match a
given mask, including subdirectories of the starting search path, e.g.:
int error = _dos_findfirst(searchPath, _A_SUBDIR, &c_file )
etc.
Some brief research into how to do this in 32-bit Windows reveals multiple
options:
FindFirstFile/FindNextFile
CFileFind
...both of which were mentioned in this newsgroup or
32-bit functions, e.g. _findfirst
There may be others I missed.
What are your recommendations and what are the advantages or disadvantages
of each choice?
It looks like all the choices above require special handling for
subdirectories.
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Gerry Murphy
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