How is Autoit FileFindNextFile made?

[E1M1]

Is it just FindNextFile? or something other? I tried to list files with C++.

hFind = FindFirstFile(token, &FindFileData);
do{
_tprintf (TEXT("File Found: %s\n"),FindFileData.cFileName);
}while(FindNextFile(hFind, &FindFileData));
FindClose(hFind);

but it doesn't seem to work. With "C:\users\rain" it says what you can see below, but actually I have many files and folders in C:\Users\rain.

C:\Users\rain>D:\Development\Cplusplus\del\del2\Debug\del2.exe
C:\users\rain
File Found: rain

C:\Users\rain>

Iam just wondering if there's any alternative methods.

[danielkza]

I think you need to suffix a folder name with a wildcard (*.*) to list its contents. AutoIt probably does that automatically before doing the actual call.

Edited August 5, 2010 by danielkza

[AdmiralAlkex]

The AutoIt source is at the download page.

Is it just FindNextFile? or something other?

Why would it be something other when AutoIt give the exact same result?

@danielkza

You make no sense.

[danielkza]

The AutoIt source is at the download page.

Why would it be something other when AutoIt give the exact same result?

@danielkza

You make no sense.

I wouldn't be surprised if AutoIt did some processing on the string before passing it to the actual API calls. Apparently, that isn't the case: a FileFindFirstFile search, when passed a string without wildcards, returns it as the single result.

All that doesn't change the fact that if you want to list directory contents, you need to append an actual wildcard to the pattern. You can check it yourself:

ConsoleWrite("=== FileFindFirstFile('C:\') ===" & @CRLF)

$hSearch = FileFindFirstFile("C:\")
$File = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
While Not @error
    ConsoleWrite($File & @CRLF)
    $File = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
WEnd

ConsoleWrite("=== FileFindFirstFile('C:\*.*') ===" & @CRLF)

$hSearch = FileFindFirstFile("C:\*.*")
$File = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
While Not @error
    ConsoleWrite($File & @CRLF)
    $File = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
WEnd

[E1M1]

hey it worked. thanks alot

[GEOSoft]

$hSearch = FileFindFirstFile("C:\*.*")

can also be

$hSearch = FileFindFirstFile("C:\*")

There is an old windows bug that makes it ignore the last dot astrick