struct sFiles
{
     char * _szFilename;
     char * _szPath;
     //i forget how many attributes linux filesystems use
     bool    _attrtibuteFlag[4];
     //have some more crap here for other stuff you want to load
};
 
int main();
{
     //this should probably be dynamically allocated...
     sFiles Files[255];
     int i(0);
     char * tmpIn;
     //assuming the file fFileIn has been declared and opened for input
    while (!fFileIn.eof() && !fFileIn.fail() && i < 255)
     {
          //I don't actually have any idea which order this stuff is saved
          //so this probably won't quite work right.
          i++;
          fFileIn.getline(tmpIn, 255, '\n');
          for (int ii(0); ii < strlen(tmpIn); ++ii)
          {
                  //parsing code goes here
                 //looking for various flags which 
                 //indicate the end of input
                 //ie a space after the path+filename
                 // would indicate the end
                 //of the path/filename.  Then the 
                 //last \ before the space indicates
                 //the start of the filename only,
                 //with the path preceeding it
 
                //i'm not actually testing this code,
                //and don't have much time...so I'll
                //leave the hard part up to you (this code)
          }
     } 
}

struct sFiles
{
     char _szFilename[255];
     char _szPath[255];
     //i forget how many attributes linux filesystems use
     bool    _attrtibuteFlag[4];
     //have some more crap here for other stuff you want to load
};
 
int main();
{
     //this should probably be dynamically allocated...
     sFiles Files[255];
     int i(0), iStage(0);
     char * tmpIn;
     //assuming the file fFileIn has been declared and opened for input
    while (!fFileIn.eof() && !fFileIn.fail() && i < 255)
     {
          //i dont really have any idea what the file would look like in 
          //linux, so this is just a general rough idea of what to do
          i++;
          iStage = 0;
          fFileIn.getline(tmpIn, 255, '\n');
          for (int ii(0); ii < strlen(tmpIn); ++ii)
          {
                  switch (iStage)
                  {
                  case 0:
                          if (tmpIn[i] == ' ')
                          {
                              iStage++
                              break;
                          }
                          Files[i]._szPath[ii] = tmpIn[i];
                          break;
                 case 1:
                  //parsing code goes here
                 //looking for various flags which 
                 //indicate the end of input
                 //ie a space after the path+filename
                 // would indicate the end
                 //of the path/filename.  Then the 
                 //last \ before the space indicates
                 //the start of the filename only,
                 //with the path preceeding it
 
                //i'm not actually testing this code,
                //and don't have much time...so I'll
                //leave the hard part up to you (this code)
          }
     } 
}

  class myLsContents{
    private:
      unsigned int inode;
      string permissions;
      bool isDirectory;    
      int    dirFiles;
      string username;
      string groupname;
      string filesize;
      // object to store the timestamp;
      string filename;
   }