Search thru SubDirectory?

[Bigd1170]

Is there a way to search a folder and all of its sub folders with win32 code. I tried to use FileSearch(), but it only searches that folder, not its sub folders.

 

[2ffat]

I don't know of a simple component. The way I do it has been discussed in this forum before. You may have to do a search for it. It is basically the same way it was done in DOS. You find the first file (FindFirstFile), check to see if it is a directory (. or ..), it so, go into the directory, and find it first file, see if it is a directory, ect, etc, then repeat on the next file (FindNextFile). Somewhere I have a recursive function that will do it.

Does anybody know of a good VCL?

If nobody answers soon, post here again and I'll post some code.

James P. Cottingham

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
[tab][tab]Albert Einstein explaining his Theory of Relativity to a group of journalists.

 

[butthead]

int RecurseDir (char *dir, char *wild, int x)
{
// example: ScanDir( "c:\\", "*.*" );
// Loads the directoryarray

struct ffblk ffblk;
int done;
char buff [512];

strcpy( buff, dir );
strcat( buff, wild );

done = findfirst(buff, &ffblk,
FA_DIREC + FA_SYSTEM
+ FA_HIDDEN + FA_RDONLY + FA_ARCH);

while( !done )
{
if(strcmp(".", ffblk.ff_name) != 0 && strcmp("..", ffblk.ff_name) != 0)
{
if((ffblk.ff_attrib & FA_DIREC) == FA_DIREC)
{
// process directory
strcpy(buff, dir);
strcat(buff, ffblk.ff_name);
strcpy (directoryarray [x], buff);
strcat(buff, "\\"

x++;

x = RecurseDir(buff, wild, x);
}
else
{
//
}
}

done = findnext(&ffblk);
}

return x;
}

int ScanDir (char *dir)
{
// This function scans a directory for all files.
// Loads the filearray

struct ffblk ffblk;
int done;
int x = 0;
char *buff = new char [512];

strcpy(buff, dir);
strcat(buff, "*.*"

done = findfirst(buff, &ffblk, FA_DIREC + FA_SYSTEM + FA_HIDDEN + FA_RDONLY + FA_ARCH);

while(!done)
{
if(strcmp(".", ffblk.ff_name) != 0 && strcmp("..", ffblk.ff_name) != 0)
{
if((ffblk.ff_attrib & FA_DIREC) == FA_DIREC);
else
{
strcpy (filearray [x], ffblk.ff_name);

x++;
}
}

done = findnext(&ffblk);
}

delete buff;

return x;
}


I think I got the beginnings of this from hennep on a previous thread. I just adapted it to my needs and this is what I have at present.

tomcruz.net

 

[Bigd1170]

Is there an easier way to do this using vcl.

 

[2ffat]

I don't know of any native VCL components. You can probably find a third party VCL, though.


James P. Cottingham

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
[tab][tab]Albert Einstein explaining his Theory of Relativity to a group of journalists.