how to get the list of files with a certain extension in a folder ?
 

Hi All,

Is there any C/C++ API in Linux that I can use to get the names of the files in a folder with a certain extension ?

I came across readdir() and scandir() functions.

readdir() gives the list of all files - it does not seem to be providing any filtering option.

scandir() provides some filtering options, but I could not understand if it is capable of giving me the names of the files with a certain extension.

I just want to avoid extra string processing in my application, but have C/C++ API perform that instead.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

The scandir filtering option is merely a function that you provide to the scandir. You can write your own function to test for the extension (but obviously this requires a string comparison).

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