Question

I’m studying this book (Addison Wesley Windows System Programming 4th Edition) and I think its useless Im working on a searching code that support the recursive so it can go in deepth in files and directories the code is working ( I guess ) no syntax error but the output is not what I want the out put of the search is like:

    not found
Now, here are the folders:
not found
Searching in d:\iust\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
\.\.\.\.\.\..\e-books\.\.\.\.\E-BOOKS
The file name is: d:\iust\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\
.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\
.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\
.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\..\e-books\.\.\.\.\E-BOOKS\*Test*
not found
Now, here are the folders:
not found
Searching in d:\iust\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
\.\.\.\.\.\..\e-books\.\.\.\..
The file name is: d:\iust\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\
.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\
.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\
.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\..\e-books\.\.\.\..\*Test*
not found
Now, here are the folders:

First I notiiced that what ever I do it will not search just inside the folder i specified but in all whole drive and the second annoying probem is the DOTS the . and .. those appear in each folder how can I avoid this problem. now as i said before Im using the book I mentioned before but I dont know I just dont like what i did is there a better way to form my code .

the code :

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

void SearchForFile(TCHAR *folder, TCHAR *file){
    _tprintf(L"Searching in %s\n",folder); //just to show the state
    TCHAR temp[1000];

    _stprintf(temp,L"%s\\%s",folder,file); // here  wrote into temp the location as folder/file
    _tprintf(L"The file name is: %s\n",temp);
    HANDLE f;
    WIN32_FIND_DATA data;
    f=FindFirstFile(temp,&data);
    if(f==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){
        _tprintf(L"not found\n");

    }
    else{
        _tprintf(L"found this file: %s\n",data.cFileName);
        while(FindNextFile(f,&data)){
            _tprintf(L"found this file: %s\n",data.cFileName);
        }
        FindClose(f);   
    }

    _stprintf(temp,L"%s\\*",folder); // "d:\*" for example
    _tprintf(L"Now, here are the folders:\n");
    f=FindFirstFile(temp,&data);
    TCHAR temp2[1000];
    if(f==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){
        _tprintf(L"not found\n");

    }
    else{
        if((data.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) != 0)
            {

            //_tprintf(L"found this directory: %s\n",data.cFileName);
                _stprintf(temp2,L"%s\\%s",folder,data.cFileName);
                SearchForFile(temp2,file);
            }
        while(FindNextFile(f,&data)){//         _tprintf(L"%d   %d\n",data.dwFileAttributes,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY);
            if((data.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) != 0)
            //  _tprintf(L"found this directory: %s\n",data.cFileName);
            {
                _stprintf(temp2,L"%s\\%s",folder,data.cFileName);
                SearchForFile(temp2,file);

            }
        }
        FindClose(f);   
    }
}


int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    SearchForFile(L"d:\\test", L"*Test*");
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

You have to filter out the . and .. pseudo-folders found in every folder.
Roughly, in your recursive branch:

if((data.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) != 0 
     && data.data.cFileName != "." 
     && data.data.cFileName != "..")