Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Chapter 20. Adapting the FindFirstFile/FindNextFile API

	Design must always conform to constraint, must always require choice, and thus must always involve compromise.
	--Henry Petroski

	Writing public libraries is the best way to make sure you write good code. It’s like: write good code as thou knowest thou should, or shame thyself in public.
	--Adi Shavit

Introduction

In this chapter we build on the knowledge gained from the previous chapters on glob_sequence (Chapter 17) and readdir_sequence (Chapter 19), by examining the file system enumeration facilities available on Windows in the form of the FindFirstFile/FindNextFile API. Although this API is similar to opendir/readdir API in that it is single-pass and returns one element at a time, it also ...