C++ script to recursively list all files in a directory

The following function recursively walks through a directory (or folder) and lists all files within that directory and all of its subdirectories.

As you can see it is a console function; however, it can be modified for the windows environment by changing the perror() and printf() statements, as required, to fill in a form.

This function is designed to work with Unicode file names. Since I don't read or write any unicode languages, I guess you will need to tell me if it works! sam@gilcrist.com

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    /**************************************************************************************
    * author  : R. Sam Gilcrist
    * date    : 07 Aug 2003
    * purpose : provided a directory name, output to the printer all file names in that
    *         : directory and subdirectories
    **************************************************************************************/
    int ListAll(char * szRoot){


      TCHAR szFullPath[MAX_PATH + 1];
      TCHAR szNewPath[MAX_PATH + 1];

      HANDLE          fFile;
      WIN32_FIND_DATA fileInfo;

      TCHAR * pdest;
      TCHAR szMsg[MAX_PATH + 128];
      int bCont;

      strcpy(szFullPath,szRoot);

      /*
       simple error trap. if the file does not have a vaild handle
       print an error to the screen and exit.
      */
      if((fFile = FindFirstFile(szRoot,& fileInfo))==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){
        strcpy(szMsg,"could not find file ");
        strcat(szMsg,szRoot);
        perror(szMsg);
        exit(0);
      }else{

        /* since we have a vaild file handle, loop thru until FindNextFile return false */
        while(fFile && bCont){
          /* skip parent (.) and self references (..) */
          if((_tcscmp(fileInfo.cFileName,".")!=0)&& (_tcscmp(fileInfo.cFileName,"..")!=0)){
            _tcscpy(szFullPath,szRoot);
            /* if an * is appended to the path, drop it, add the new file to the path
               then add another * at the end */
            pdest = _tcschr(szFullPath, '*');
            if(pdest !=NULL){
                int offset = pdest - szFullPath;
                _tcsncpy(szFullPath + offset, fileInfo.cFileName, _tcslen(fileInfo.cFileName)+1 );
            }
            /* dump data to the screen */
            printf("%s\n",szFullPath);
          }
          /*
            if this is a directory and it is not the parent or self pointers
            then add a * to the end of the file name so that FindNextFile know to list
            all files
          */
          if (fileInfo.dwFileAttributes==FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY){
            if((strcmp(fileInfo.cFileName,".")!=0) && (strcmp(fileInfo.cFileName,"..")!=0)){
                _tcscpy(szNewPath,szRoot);
                pdest = _tcschr(szNewPath, '*');
                if(pdest !=NULL){
                  int offset = pdest - szNewPath;
                  _tcsncpy(szNewPath + offset, fileInfo.cFileName, _tcslen(fileInfo.cFileName)+1 );
                }
                _tcscat(szNewPath,"\\*");
                /* recurse up the tree */
                ListAll(szNewPath);
               }

          }
          /* get the next file from the file table */
          bCont = FindNextFile(fFile,&fileInfo);

        }
      }

      return 0;
    }