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Creating folders in C++

Elfman · 2005-05-23 17:14:59

Hi i want to make a programme which will read all the mp3 files in a folder and put them into folders grouped alphabeticaly by name, Prob: i dont know how to creat a folder from within my programme, also if ne one can tell me how i can distugues between file types that would be great but... baby step all help appriciated

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23-05-2005 6:14pm

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Elfman

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Hi i want to make a programme which will read all the mp3 files in a folder and put them into folders grouped alphabeticaly by name,

Prob: i dont know how to creat a folder from within my programme,

also if ne one can tell me how i can distugues between file types that would be great but... baby step

all help appriciated

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#2 23-05-2005 6:51pm
theexis

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If you're targetting the Windows API, the following will help you:

FindFirstFile / FindNextFile
CreateDirectory
CopyFile or MoveFile

That said, why would you not use a simple batch file for this?

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