FindFirstFile error in compilation [modified]

[_AnsHUMAN_]

can you tell me what type of application are you working on? MFC , Console or On something else because I tried executing your code in MFC application and apart from a very minor change I was able to get the result. Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-) _AnShUmAn_

[darkcloud 42o]

Hi, Im using Visual Studio 2005 but ive figured that part out via searching long and hard on the web... however im stuck with another problem just the same.... heres what i got for that part.... std::wstring s2ws(const std::string& s){ int len; int slength = (int)s.length() + 1; len = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, s.c_str(), slength, 0, 0); wchar_t* buf = new wchar_t[len]; MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, s.c_str(), slength, buf, len); std::wstring r(buf); delete[] buf; return r; } #ifdef UNICODE std::wstring stemp = s2ws(ipp); // Temporary buffer is required LPCWSTR result = stemp.c_str(); #endif WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData; HANDLE hFind = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE; char DirSpec[MAX_PATH + 1]; // directory specification DWORD dwError; hFind = FindFirstFile(result, &FindFileData); printf ("First file name is %s\n", FindFileData.cFileName); My problem is i cant seem to get the FindFileData function to return a readable string... but i need FindFileData to be string s; for example...

[_AnsHUMAN_]

Should get it now. strcat(result,"\0"); hFind=FindFirstFile(result,&FindFileData); Do you get the name of the file or not? Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-) _AnShUmAn_

[darkcloud 42o]

//ok i fixed part of it but still need to get std::string out of it... //here is what should be a compilable version of the code fragment... #include #include #include std::wstring s2ws(const std::string& s){ int len; int slength = (int)s.length() + 1; len = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, s.c_str(), slength, 0, 0); wchar_t* buf = new wchar_t[len]; MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, s.c_str(), slength, buf, len); std::wstring r(buf); delete[] buf; return r; } int main(){ string ipp="c:\\"; #ifdef UNICODE std::wstring stemp = s2ws(ipp); // Temporary buffer is required LPCWSTR result = stemp.c_str(); #endif WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData; HANDLE hFind = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE; char DirSpec[MAX_PATH + 1]; // directory specification DWORD dwError; hFind = FindFirstFile(result, &FindFileData); printf ("First file name is %s\n", FindFileData.cFileName); } //The Return is fine i get First file name is . //which is what i think im looking for... however //I still to need to get the string instead of the printed .

[_AnsHUMAN_]

what string do you need . The filename is in FindFileData.cFileName Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-) _AnShUmAn_

[darkcloud 42o]

heres all i could come up with with the find filedata... string s; s=(FindFileData.cFileName); cout << s; no luck.. error C2679: binary '=' : no operator found which takes a right-hand operand of type 'WCHAR [260]' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

[_AnsHUMAN_]

char *s=new char[255]; strcpy(s,FindFileData.cFileName); cout<_AnShUmAn_

[Justin Tay]

std::string stores char. You need to use std::wstring to store wchar_t. You probably need to read up on unicode. If it's not your intention to use unicode set your project to use multibyte character strings instead.

[darkcloud 42o]

strcpy not working... researching info for converting wstring to string.... no luck yet...

[darkcloud 42o]

found it... wstring s= s; string ssss; s=FindFileData.cFileName; ssss.assign(s.begin(), s.end()); cout << ssss; Thnx for your help

[Justin Tay]

But then the question you should ask yourself is this. Why are you building a unicode application in the first place?

[Hamid Taebi]

your Character set is Unicode Character Set LPTSTR lpc; lpc=(LPTSTR)LocalAlloc(LPTR,256); wsprintf(lpc,_T("%s"), _T("c:\\code.txt")); WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData; HANDLE hp; hp = FindFirstFile(lpc, &FindFileData); LocalFree(lpc);_**

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