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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
