How do i check in C++ if a file is a regular file (and is not a directory, a pipe, etc.)? I need a function isFile().
DIR *dp;
struct dirent *dirp;
while ((dirp = readdir(dp)) != NULL) {
if ( isFile(dirp)) {
cout << "IS A FILE!" << endl;
i++;
}
I've tried comparing dirp->d_type with (unsigned char)0x8, but it seems not portable through differents systems.
You need to call stat(2) on the file, and then use the S_ISREG macro on st_mode.
You can use the portable boost::filesystem
(The standard C++ library could not have done this up until recent introduction of std::filesystem in C++17):
#include <boost/filesystem/path.hpp>
#include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp>
#include <iostream>
int main() {
using namespace boost::filesystem;
path p("/bin/bash");
if(is_regular_file(p)) {
std::cout << "exists and is regular file" << std::endl;
}
}
C++ itself doesn't deal with file systems, so there's no portable way in the language itself. Platform-specific examples are stat
for *nix (as already noted by Martin v. Löwis) and GetFileAttributes
for Windows.
Also, if you're not allergic to Boost, there's fairly cross-platform boost::filesystem
.
In C++17, you may use std::filesystem::is_regular_file
#include <filesystem> // additional include
if(std::filesystem::is_regular_file(yourFilePathToCheck))
; //Do what you need to do
Note that earlier version of C++ may have had it under std::experimental::filesystem (Source: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/is_regular_file)
Thank you all for the help, i've tried with
while ((dirp = readdir(dp)) != NULL) {
if (!S_ISDIR(dirp->d_type)) {
...
i++;
}
}
And it works fine. =)
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
bool isFile(std::string filepath)
{
boost::filesystem::path p(filepath);
if(boost::filesystem::is_regular_file(p)) {
return true;
}
std::cout<<filepath<<" file does not exist and is not a regular file"<<std::endl;
return false;
}