ot, a programming question

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Fri Dec 21 18:28:47 EST 2001


Thanks for enlightening me (grin).
I've been programmming for almost 4 years now.
Anybody know which c++ header file contains this function?
Greg


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:03:19PM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> Sorry, I've done this under DOS, Win32 and Java, but not under Linux but I'm
> sure its the same.
> 
> There's bound to be a function that'll return a list of all files in the
> current directory.  Then it's simple programming to see which of them fits
> the wildcard.  Then once you have a list of files to play you just open the
> file and do stuff etc.
> 
> If you're really lucky there may be functions under Linux to return a list
> of files that match the wildcard but I'n not sure.
> 
> Oh, and I'm assuming you know how to program.  In case you don't, every
> C/C++ program has a function called main.  Main has two parameters - the
> number of command line parameters and an array of strings containing the
> parameters - this is the operating system's doing.
> 
> Hope this satisfies your curiosity.
> 
> Saqib
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:18 PM
> Subject: ot, a programming question
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > There is something that's been eating away at my cariousity for the last
> few days, and I just had to ask the below.
> > Say you run a program such as mpg123 or any other program which
> minipulates files, and you pass it *.*, or my?.mp3 to open. How does it
> parce that to get a list of files that match *.* or my?.mp3? I tried looking
> for mpg123 code that does that, but couldn't find it.
> > Could someone please enlighten me, I'm very much interested. Thanks.
> > Greg
> >
> >
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