myName

Hello world,

Is there anywhere for C++ to check whether a folder is empty?

Eg: A folder, with a name called "UploadFile". Inside the folder will be contain many text file with different file name like "20060302.txt, 20060303.txt....."

The program logic is
1. Check whether the "UploadFile" folder is empty?
2. Get all the text file name inside the "UploadFile" folder.
3. Delete the text file.

I was wondering is there anywhere to check whether the "UploadFile" folder is empty and how to get the file name inside the folder??

uman

it depends on the operating system.

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myName

let say, the operating system allowed the logic..

How to code it in C++? i have no idea about it... i still searching on the net for some example.. if there anyone can give some guide, there be much appreciate :-)

nnxion

You have to set the current directory, get the first file, if that fails there are no files.
Check to see if it is a text file, if so delete it.
Check if there are other files, if so, then check to see if they are text files, if so delete them.

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Jimbo

If you're on Windows, I'm pretty sure that .NET has some pretty good support for the filesystem. If you're on a *nix platform, well, I don't rightly know what they've got. Surely something. You could also consider just using a shell script at that point though.

v0id

Try take a look at this: http://home20.inet.tele.dk/midgaard/snip/listfiles.html
It listing all files in a given directory, then you can try to combine it with 'if the list is empty then...'

Game_Ender

You can also check out the boost filesystem library. Boost can be hard to understand because of its heavy use of templates and the STL, but is_empty is the function you want.

Also the above example probably won't compile on windows under any VS compiler. See his explanation here .