Re: [Mingw-users] Directory Parsing

[Paul G. <pa...@pa...>]

Hi

> Jason Benjamin wrote:
>> I've heard that this sort of thing is very compiler/OS specific...
>
> Correct. Directory and file handling functions are specific to the 
> operating system. The C/C++ libraries provide the means to open and 
> read/write files, but that is about it. Renaming and moving files, 
> creating directories, etc. requires either OS-specific API calls or making 
> system calls to stuff like "rm" or "mv".
>
> I searched Sourceforge and could not find a library that handles this. You 
> may want to write a module that uses conditional compilation to provide a 
> common interface but OS-specific functions on the back-end. That or use 
> Perl if possible.

If you want cross-platform and you're prepared to go to C++ then I believe 
the boost (www.boost.org) file library will do what you want.

Regards
Paul

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