Delete Folder

[Lukezzz]

I want to delete a Folder that consist of .txt Files. I am trying with this code below but the member :: Delete says that it only can emty an emty folder but this folder contains .txt files.
So I wonder what other technique could be used ?

System::IO::Directory::Delete( "Path of Emty Directory" );

[Cybulski]

You need to empty this folder I guess. That's how Windows works if you noticed.

Right now I am working on file listing class, it places all files in given subdirectory in vector of strings. If you are interested.

[Lukezzz]

That sounds wonderful, I would be interested of that, yes. If you will make that work, it will be nice to see what you did..

You need to empty this folder I guess. That's how Windows works if you noticed.

Right now I am working on file listing class, it places all files in given subdirectory in vector of strings. If you are interested.

[Cybulski]

It lists files, you still need recursively delete directories beginning with deepest path. This calss will be more complex, handling configuration file and multitasking.

DirectoryReader.h:

class DirectoryReader
{
public:
DirectoryReader(void);
~DirectoryReader(void);
vector<string> m_vFilenames;
int MakeList(string p_sPath);
void DisplayVector(vector<string>);
void DisplayVector();
};

DirectoryReader.cpp:

int DirectoryReader::MakeList(string p_sPath)
{
struct _finddatai64_t struct_filedata;
string s_filename = p_sPath + "\\*.*";
string s_current = ".";
string s_parrent = "..";
long nHandle = _findfirsti64(s_filename.c_str(), &struct_filedata);

if(nHandle >= 0)
{
while(_findnexti64(nHandle, &struct_filedata) == 0)
{
if(struct_filedata.attrib & _A_SUBDIR)
{
if( (s_current.compare(struct_filedata.name) && s_parrent.compare(struct_filedata.name)) )
{
s_filename = p_sPath + "\\" + struct_filedata.name;
MakeList(s_filename);
}
}
else
{
//cout << "File found: " << p_sPath << " , " << struct_filedata.name << endl;
m_vFilenames.push_back(p_sPath + "\\" + struct_filedata.name);
}

}
}
else
{
cout << "Path not found." << endl;
return -1;
}
return(m_vFilenames.size());
}

void DirectoryReader::DisplayVector()
{
DisplayVector(m_vFilenames);
}

void DirectoryReader::DisplayVector(vector<string> p_vsVector)
{
vector<string>::iterator iter_vsIterator = p_vsVector.begin();
int n_listCount = 0;

while(iter_vsIterator != p_vsVector.end())
{
cout << *iter_vsIterator << endl;
n_listCount++;
iter_vsIterator++;
}
}

DirectoryReader::~DirectoryReader(void)
{
}

I based some ideas on Ancient Dragon's snippet. It stores full filenames in vector. You can replace .push_back with delete function, ot modify DisplayVector to delete files stored in vector. I can't think how to handle directory tree, it's too late.

I also hope it still works after I removed additional stuff not needed for your problem.

[Lukezzz]

Thank you! While you did the solution I tried out another approach to save all the files that found in a directory like this that later can be used for File::Copy:
(I will check your code out)

array<System:: String ^> ^ files4 = System::IO:: Directory::GetFiles(GetOutMainPath, "*.txt");

std::vector<string> GiveAllFiles2;
std::string GiveAllFiles;
int CountAllFiles = 0;

if( files4->Length > 0 )
{
        for( int i = 0; i < files4->Length; ++i)
       {
         MarshalString(files4[i], GiveAllFiles);
         GiveAllFiles2.push_back(GiveAllFiles.c_str());  
         //This vector contains ALL .txt files that can be copied.
						 
        CountAllFiles = (CountAllFiles + 1);
        }
}