I don't think that the OP wanted to iterate through the entire directory 
though...

On 17 Mar 2010, at 16:15, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:

> Does readdir work on Mac OS X?  I don't have a Mac handy right now to
> check, but it should work because so many *NIX programs build on OS X
> right out of the box.
> 
> More or less what you do is call opendir on a directory, then
> rewinddir to set your iterator to the beginning of the directory, then
> repeatedly call readdir to read each of the items in the directory.
> 
> This is actually a portable and standardized interface to reading the
> directory inode.
> 
> Note that there is both a readdir system call and a readdir library
> call.  You want the library call.  The system call is there for the
> private use of the library call, and isn't meant to make sense or be
> portable.
> 
> If readdir does work on OS X, it will get you the filename as it is
> actually found in the filesystem - that is, with the case preserved.
> 
> Look up "man 3 readdir" and friends.
> 
> Don Quixote
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