Finding files in a folder / directory using MFC!

There are a couple of ways to find/search files in a folder/directory. Usually, Win32 programmers use FindFirstFile & FindNextFile functions to find the files in a particular folder. MFC provides a simplified way of finding the files using CFileFind class.

The following example shows how to find files in a particular folder. This example is also helpful to find files recursively:

	void FileFind(CString sPath)
	{
	CFileFind finder;
	BOOL bFind = finder.FindFile(sPath);
	while ( bFind )
	{
	bFind = finder.FindNextFileW();
	if ( finder.IsDots() )
	continue;
	if ( finder.IsDirectory() )
	{
	wprintf(_T("[%s]\n"), finder.GetFileName());
	FileFind(finder.GetFilePath() + _T("\\*.*"));
	}
	else
	wprintf(_T("%s\n"), finder.GetFileName());
	}
	finder.Close();
	}

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You can call the above function anywhere in your program. For example, the following function call shows all the files in C: drive recursively:

FileFind(_T("C:\\*.*"));

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