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Reading files in C++, using *.

Hello:

I have a question and I hope you'd be so kind to help me:

I have this program, let's call it myProgram.exe, I wrote it under c++.
Now this program reads a file and processes it, the file that's gonna be read will be specified as a parameter in command line:

myProgram thisThing.h

so it will read the file thisThing.h . I want it to be able to accept several files:

myProgram a.h b.h c.h

And read and processes them all. I have managed to do that, but I'd like to use the *.h and make it read all .h files there are in the directory, is that possible?

myProgram *.h

how can I get a list of the files that are in the directory and then choose those with .h ???

thanks a lot in advance for your time and your help

Poeta

---- Almost to newbie to funcion :cry: ------

The shell handles filename expansion for you. Here's a little example program I wrote to show you:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>



int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

  int i;



  printf("Number of files: %d\n", argc-1);



  for(i = 1;i < argc;++i)

    puts(argv[i]);



  return 0;

}

This is the output of the program when I run it (bar.exe *.c):
Number of files: 2
bar.c
foo.c

And as it turns out, those are the only files in that directory that end with .c ;)

thanks a lot! I thought I had to manage that

Thanks thanks!

hello again:

I couldnt do what you said... does it matter if I'm using windows? I did this:

vector<string> comandos;
for(int i = 1; i < argc ; i++)
comandos.push_back(argv[i]);

and when I call: me.exe *.h it says:

*. file cant be found

I dunno what happens?

sorry.... doublr posted so I erase this one.

please help :cry: