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[Dev-C++] how to check that a directory path exists?

[Guillermo G. <ggu...@ma...>]

hello, I have not had too much luck finding a way to verify whether a =
directory path exists without using the WIN32 API calls. I need to check =
for the existence of a two directories in two different drives to see =
which path exists.
Ex: The following are directories that I want to check for.
1. C:\FolderOne
2. D:\FolderOne
3. C:\FolderTwo
4. D:\FolderTwo

I want to take which ever one exists, because I know for a fact that =
only one of these will be valid and exist.

how can I do that without using WIN32 API calls or would it better to =
use the API calls?
thanks in advance,

Guillermo Gutierrez
Market Scan Information Systems
Software Q.A. Supervisor
(818) 575-2000 x2427
ggu...@ma...

Re: [Dev-C++] how to check that a directory path exists?

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

Use getcwd to save the current working folder, then test the return value of chdir to see if the folder in question was actually entered into.  I fought this for a while trying to use different methods that used stat, however only chdir appeared to work correctly.
 
getcwd and chdir are declared in direct.h and the usage can be found at the Microsoft Support site.

Guillermo Gutierrez <ggu...@ma...> wrote:

hello, I have not had too much luck finding a way to verify whether a directory path exists without using the WIN32 API calls. I need to check for the existence of a two directories in two different drives to see which path exists.
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Alfred P. Reaud
 

Re: [Dev-C++] how to check that a directory path exists?

[Jakob E. <mai...@ko...>]

If it's platform independence your looking for you could try PhysicsFS. =20
I've never used it myself (but I've heard good things about it) so I don'=
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know if it can do what you want it to but it is a file-management library=
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so It probably can.

http://icculus.org/physfs/

/Jakob Eklund

Den 2005-02-03 16:25:49 skrev Guillermo Gutierrez =20
<ggu...@ma...>:

> hello, I have not had too much luck finding a way to verify whether a =20
> directory path exists without using the WIN32 API calls. I need to chec=
k =20
> for the existence of a two directories in two different drives to see =20
> which path exists.
> Ex: The following are directories that I want to check for.
> 1. C:\FolderOne
> 2. D:\FolderOne
> 3. C:\FolderTwo
> 4. D:\FolderTwo
>
> I want to take which ever one exists, because I know for a fact that =20
> only one of these will be valid and exist.
>
> how can I do that without using WIN32 API calls or would it better to =20
> use the API calls?
> thanks in advance,
>
> Guillermo Gutierrez
> Market Scan Information Systems
> Software Q.A. Supervisor
> (818) 575-2000 x2427
> ggu...@ma...
>