Read file types for all files in a specified directory

hkl

I posted a question earlier asking how I can read all files in an user specified directory. Thanks for all the answers. However, I'm wondering if it's possible to read or check the file type (eg. .txt, .doc, or a folder) as well?? Thanks for any help.:)

David Crow

Well, a file's type and its extension are not necessarily indictive of the other. In other words, I can create a .DOC file with Word, and change the extension to .XYZ. Now what do I have? You can determine if a given entity is a folder or not by looking at the attrib member of the _finddata_t structure mentioned earlier. You can also look at the dwFileAttributes member of the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure.

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hkl

Yeah, that's true. The extension can be changed. So, I guess I will have to write a function to check that, assuming the file extensions are correct. I am using the attrib member of the _finddata_t structure. It turns out that a folder is 16 whereas a .txt is 32 or 33. Can you please tell me what those numbers represent?! Thanks.

David Crow

hkl wrote: Can you please tell me what those numbers represent?! Take a look at lines 92-97 of dos.h, and lines 140-145 of io.h.

Five birds are sitting on a fence. Three of them decide to fly off. How many are left?

hkl

Thanks so much! I will take a look at that! :cool:

algol

You could get string description of file's type using SHGetFileInfo() API function with SHGFI_TYPENAME flag.