how i can read the contents of directory

[srini]

hi,

how can i read the contents of directory.
suppose a directory is having some .txt files. now i want to read all the file one by one. how can i implement a code in c++.

Thanking you,
srinivas.

[jsmith]

Use opendir() and readdir(). (man 3 opendir and man 3 readdir).
Continue calling readdir() until it returns NULL. Each call to readdir returns the "next" directory entry. Be aware that readdir() will return "." and ".." as directory entries...