Help Deleting Directories

Hey everyone I have been doing a bit of C++ programming lately and found my self stuck when I tried to port a program written in Java to C++ that uses a recursive function to delete the files in a directory.

Code:

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#include <unistd.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

char* initialPath = "C:\\test\\*";
WIN32_FIND_DATA fileData;
HANDLE handle;

int deleteDirectories (char* initialPath, WIN32_FIND_DATA fileData, HANDLE handle)
{   
    string newFileName;
    string fileName;
   
    handle = FindFirstFile(initialPath, &fileData);
    newFileName = initialPath;
    newFileName = newFileName.substr(0, newFileName.size() - 1) + fileData.cFileName;
    remove(newFileName.c_str());
   
    while (true)
    {
          if (fileName == fileData.cFileName)
          {
              break;           
          }
          fileName = fileData.cFileName;
         
          FindNextFile(handle, &fileData);
         
          if (fileData.dwFileAttributes == 16)
          {         
              newFileName = initialPath;
              newFileName = newFileName.substr(0, newFileName.size() - 1) + fileData.cFileName + "\\*";
              initialPath = const_cast<char*>(newFileName.c_str()); 
              cout << initialPath << endl;
             
              deleteDirectories (initialPath, fileData, handle); 
             
          }
         
          newFileName = initialPath;
          newFileName = newFileName.substr(0, newFileName.size() - 1) + fileData.cFileName;
          remove(newFileName.c_str());       
    }
   
FindClose(handle);   
return 0;
}

int main()
{
    deleteDirectories (initialPath, fileData, handle);   
    return 0;
}

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Now for some reason it deletes the files on the first layer correctly but when I implemented the if statement to check to see if the file was a directory or not it throws my program into an endless loop. Can anyone provide me with some incite into fixing this problem?

If you use boost:

Code:

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#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

boost::remove_all("C:\\test");

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Here for more info.

Hello, how can I delete a directory or a file if I still get pop-up that it is being used by some program ?

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Originally Posted by NonstopChachacha

Hello, how can I delete a directory or a file if I still get pop-up that it is being used by some program ?

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So how ? :(

Quote:

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Originally Posted by NonstopChachacha

Hello, how can I delete a directory or a file if I still get pop-up that it is being used by some program ?

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You can't.

Could you tell me why please ?

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Originally Posted by NonstopChachacha

Could you tell me why please ?

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Because the operating system won't let you. What would you expect the program to do if the directory it was working in was deleted out from under it?