Question

I used function FindFirstFile() but i received only memory address – not a file name.

#include <stdafx.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;


int main()
{
    WIN32_FIND_DATA File_Data;  

    FindFirstFile(TEXT("C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\temp\\*.tmp"), &File_Data);
    cout<<File_Data.cFileName;

    cin.get();
    return 0;
}

Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

You are probably compiling using the Unicode character set, which means that windows API’s will default all character strings to the wide version (wchar_t vs char). Try using the wide output version of cout (wcout):

wcout<<File_Data.cFileName;