Like the title says, I have a C++ program and the user passes in an argument. I want to validate whether the argument passed is a valid DOS/Windows drive letter (i.e. C:. D:. E:) and that the drive exists on the system. How do I do this?
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Like the title says, I have a C++ program and the user passes in an argument. I want to validate whether the argument passed is a valid DOS/Windows drive letter (i.e. C:. D:. E:) and that the drive exists on the system. How do I do this?
You can get the type of a drive with GetDriveType() – which also tells you if a drive doesn’t exist or isn’t availble
Or the ‘correct’ way is to enumerate through all the drives