Read file names from a directory

Question

I was wondering if there's an easy way in C++ to read a number of file names from a folder containing many files. They are all bitmaps if anyone is wondering.

I don't know much about windows programming so I was hoping it can be done using simple C++ methods.

Answer 1

Boost provides a basic_directory_iterator which provides a C++ standard conforming input iterator which accesses the contents of a directory. If you can use Boost, then this is at least cross-platform code.