listing files in a folder using C in Windows

Question

I want to list the files in this folder \"C:\\home\\WORK\\Desktop\\Communication\". There are ten files in this folder. My code has no error but it\'s not printing anything. Wh

Answer 1

Seems, you should move

numberOfFiles++  

past

printf("%s\n",files[numberOfFiles]);

Or

while((FindNextFile(hFind,&fdata))!=0)
{
    files[numberOfFiles]=fdata.cFileName;
    printf("%s\n", files[numberOfFiles++]);
}

Which is same as

while((FindNextFile(hFind,&fdata))!=0)
{
    printf("%s\n", files[numberOfFiles++] = fdata.cFileName);
}

I don't know WinAPI well, but I feel, that all files will contain invalid pointers after FindClose(hFind) as well as all elements of files will point to *(fdata.cFileName) which will be released in FindClose(hFind). In other words, as I understand this, you should copy (or duplicate) fdata.cFileName into files[i] on each iteration.