From:	"Andrew Hurrell" <andrew AT amh-consulting DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: File listing
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Damian Yerrick wrote

> >I am curious as to how to list the files in a
> >directory to the screen, or into an array, like a
> >file open window.  Could somebody give me some
> >ideas?
>
> Look in the libc docs for findfirst() or look in the Allegro docs for
> for_each_file().
>

Or you could use the functions in dirent.h

e.g.

DIR *d = opendir("your_directory");
struct dirent *de;

while((de = readdir(d)))
      name[k++] = strdup(de->d_name);

closedir(d);

ANDREW

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