Re: [Mingw-users] problem with reading dirs (_findfirst())

[MARSHALL K. <Kei...@to...>]

Sebastien Kramm wrote:
> I'm just trying to read the files in a directory, but the simpliest code
> below gives incoherent results. Do I miss something ? Should I use 
another
> function?
>
> -------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <io.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> int handle;
> struct _finddata_t s;
>
> handle = _findfirst( "*.*", &s );
> printf( "handle = %d\n", handle );
>
> handle = _findnext( handle, &s );
> printf( "handle = %d\n", handle );

The 'handle' in the above code is really a status return from
_findfirst() or _findnext() respectively; it merely indicates
whether the call actually found a valid directory entry, or not.

When you get a successful return, then you need to examine the
data returned in your 's' struct, to retrieve the file info.

HTH.

Regards,
Keith.