Looking at Files in Different Directory (not current directory)

[mspeppa19]

What is the command to use to look at files in a different directory. I am writing a program that will analyze files in a directory, but the code that I have only analyzes the files in the current working directory. if i'm running my program from one directory, what is the code so that I can specify a pathname for the directory I wish to analyze.

i.e. i run my program from 'maindirectory' and i want to anaylze the contents of 'childdirectory'


Thanks!

 

[mspeppa19]

Does anybody know??? I know that the command to look at files in the current directory is ... opendir(...) but when I try to specify a directory it doesn't work.

 

[Salem]

You should be able to do
[tt]opendir("c:\\path\\to\\dir");[/tt]

Don't forget the double \\ when writing paths in C or C++ code.

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