Subj : Re: Sub-tree search
To   : notbg
From : Georges
Date : Mon Jul 04 2005 05:44 pm



Bob Gonder wrote:

> Georges wrote:
>
> >I've been trying to write something that will search a directory-tree
> >for named files such as *.cpp - alas without much success!
> >
> >A sort of OWL/C++ version of   DOS   'dir *.cpp /s'
> >
> >If anyone has any ideas, or better still some code!  It would be very
> >much appreciated.
>
> Start with where you want to start:
> int main(void)
> {
>         FindCPP( "C:\\");
>         return 0;
> }
> Then, find the files:
> void FindCPP( char*path)
> {       static depth = 0;//for illustration use if you want
>         int     done;
>         char    mypath[256];
>         struct  ffblk  fb;
>         fnmerge( mypath,NULL,path,"*.cpp",NULL);
>         done = findfirst( mypath, &fb, 0 );
>         // first, find all the files in this folder
>         while (!done)
>         {
>              // you could use depth here to indent the display
>               printf("  %s\n", fb.ff_name);
>
>               done = findnext(&fb);
>         }
>         findclose( &fb);
>         fnmerge( mypath,NULL,path,"*.*",NULL);
>         done = findfirst( mypath, &fb, 0 );
>         // then recurse through all the subfolders
>         while (!done)
>         {
>             if(  (fb.ff_attrib&FA_DIREC) ==FA_DIREC )
>             {  if( fb.ff_name[0] != '.' ) // ignore '.' and '..' dirs
>                 {       fnmerge( mypath, NULL,path,fb.ff_name,"\\");
>                 ++depth;
>                 FindCPP( mypath );
>                 --depth;
>             }  }
>             done = findnext(&fb);
>         }
>         findclose( &fb);
> }
> Note that this is just written, and untested.
> There may be typeos, and the fnmerge functions might need added
> slashes between the old path and the new ff_name, in which case, use
> strcpy/strcat instead.  A good defense woulde be to check the passed
> path for an ending '\\' at the very beginning of the function.

Bob,

Don't get me wrong - I only tried 'FindClose' because 'findclose' didn't
work and I could find no reference to 'findclose' in the book!  I did a
very full trial with your original code but it never got into a
sub-directory!  Any modifications t suggest?

Georges

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