finding files

[malonep]

Hi,

I have a known directory c:\transferfolder\

and I would like to select all the files from that directory that have the ending "_s.txt"

Is c++ able to do this?

 

[shetlandbob]

the code below searches recursively in a base directory for a specific file name, if it finds it then it returns the full path.

I'm sure this could be copied and modified to do what you want?

hint: remove the input string "file", change the wildcard to "*_s.txt", and build an array of all the files that it finds.

// in header
CString resultsDir;



CString FileIO::FindFile ( LPCTSTR baseDirectory, CString file )
{
  CFileFind finder;
  
  resultsDir = "none";  // used to check if file has not been found.
   // build a string with wildcards
  CString strWildcard( baseDirectory );
  strWildcard += _T( "\\*.*" );

  // start working for files

  BOOL bWorking = finder.FindFile( strWildcard );

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

    // skip . and .. files; otherwise, we'd recursively search infinitely!
    if ( finder.IsDots() ) continue;

    CString str = finder.GetFilePath();
    // if change dir name so has first run no in it - we can change the search criteria
    
    // if it's a directory, recursively search it
    if ( finder.IsDirectory() )
    {
      if ( FindFile( str, file ) != "none" ) bWorking = false; // if FindFile != "none" -> file has been found - so exit
    }
    else 
    {
      if ( finder.GetFileName() == file ) 
      { 
        bWorking = false; 
        resultsDir = finder.GetFilePath();
      }
    }
  }
  finder.Close();
  return ( resultsDir );
}