scandir.h

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From: Tom Torfs (tomtorfs@village.uunet.be)
Subject: scandir() for win32
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, comp.unix.programmer
Date: 2002-10-31 03:26:30 PST

Hello All,

Below you will find an implementation of scandir() (and alphasort())
for Win32. I wrote it because it helps me a lot when writing directory
scanning code for both Unix and Win32. I hope some of you will find it
useful as well.

greetings,
Tom

*** scandir.h ***

*/

/*
 * scandir() for win32
 * this tool should make life easier for people writing for both unix
and wintel
 * written by Tom Torfs, 2002/10/31
 * donated to the public domain; use this code for anything you like
as long as
 * it is understood there are absolutely *NO* warranties of any kind,
even implied
 */

#ifdef _WIN32

#include <stdio.h>

#define MAXNAMLEN FILENAME_MAX

typedef unsigned long ino_t;

/* directory entry structure */
struct dirent {
    char d_name[MAXNAMLEN+1]; /* name of directory entry (0
terminated) */
     ino_t d_ino;               /* file serial number -- will be 0 for
win32 */
     short d_namlen;            /* length of string in d_name */
     short d_reclen;            /* length of this record */
};

/* the scandir() function */
int scandir(
     const char *dirname,
     struct dirent ***namelist,
     int (*select)(const struct dirent *),
     int (*compar)(
          const struct dirent **,
          const struct dirent **
     )
);

/* compare function for scandir() for alphabetic sort
   (case-insensitive on Win32) */
int alphasort(
     const struct dirent **d1,
     const struct dirent **d2
);

/* case-insensitive strcmp() */
int istrcmp(
  const char *s1,
  const char *s2
);

#endif

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