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From: burleigh@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: TC2: problem filling array of struct w/ findnext
Keywords: turbo c array structure findnext
Message-ID: <154@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 11:49:22 GMT
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once again i need to draw on net.experience.

this code:

#include    <dir.h>
#include    <dos.h>

struct ffblk file_list[20];
int fnd = 0;

fnd = findfirst( "*.*", file_list+0, 0 );
for( i = 1; fnd != -1; i++ )
  fnd = findnext( file_list+i );

does not work right, and i have no doubt it is because i am not
properly referencing the addresses of the file_list array of
struct.  the intent is simply to have findfirst/findnext put a
list of file into the file_list[i].  instead, the first file goes
in correctly, but then we drop out of the for loop with fnd = -1,
meaning either the filespec is bad or we've exhausted the dir.  
this should not be happening.

if we un-array file_list and put a printf file_list.ff_name behind
the findnext, things work as expected.

this is a vastly stripped down version of the code.

i would very much appreciate any e-mail insights into my errors.
thank you muchly.

btw, this is tc2.0 and pc dos 4.01.

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