Problem with dirent.h

[Jazpy]

Hi everyone, I recently started working on a project that will look for a file, any file, and open it with its associated application (word for .doc, whatever the user uses for .mp3, etc). I'm using dirent.h to navigate through folders, and I was just testing it out and following tutorials when I found my first problem: The following code compiles, but it doesn't output anything to the console, even though I'm sure there are files and a folder in the same directory

#include <iostream>
#include <dirent.h>

using std::cout;            using std::cin;
using std::endl;

int main(){
    DIR* dir_pter = NULL;
    struct dirent* ent_pter = NULL;

    dir_pter = opendir(".");

    if(dir_pter == NULL){
        cout << "ERROR: dir_pter failed to initialize." << endl;
        return 1;
    }

    while(ent_pter == readdir(dir_pter)){

        if(ent_pter == NULL){
            cout << "ERROR: ent_pter failed to initialize." << endl;
            return 1;
        }

        cout << ent_pter -> d_name << endl;

    }

    closedir(dir_pter);

    return 0;
}

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

[coder777]

line 18: while(ent_pter == readdir(dir_pter)){ it compares ent_pter but never assigns it.

Are you sure that you know where ther current path "." is?

[Jazpy]

That was it, thanks for the quick answer, the while loop was supposed to test if readdir() was successful