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Hi. Can somebody help me with finding out how to handle directories in C++. Let's say I want to do something with a number of files located in a specific directory, i.e. I need to know the content of the directory. How can I extract this information? In all the books etc. I have looked in, there are many info about how to manipulate files (which is good), but nothing about a simple example like the above (bad).