How to get list of files with a specific extension in a given folder?

Question

I want to get the file names of all files that have a specific extension in a given folder (and recursively, its subfolders). That is, the file name (and extension), not th

Answer 1

You don't say what OS you are on, but there are several options.

As commenters have mentioned, boost::filesystem will work if you can use boost.

Other options are

• CFileFind Class with MFC
• FindFirstFile/FindNextFile with WIN32
• opendir/readdir with POSIX.