You are missing the initial match ...

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long nHandle = _findfirsti64(s_filename.c_str(), &struct_filedata);
if(nHandle >= 0)
{
    cout << "First match is: " << struct_filedata.name << '\n';
    
    while(_findnexti64(nHandle, &struct_filedata) == 0)
    {
    ...
}

... long nHandle = _findfirsti64(s_filename.c_str(), &struct_filedata); if(nHandle >= 0) { cout << "First match is: " << struct_filedata.name << '\n'; while(_findnexti64(nHandle, &struct_filedata) == 0) { ... }

If you mean _findfirsti46(), then no. It isn't counted as first result.