Help Deleting Directories

[SkaterKid]

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.

#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;
}

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?

[STLDude]

If you use boost:

#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

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

Here for more info.

[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 ?

[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 ?

So how ?

[GCDEF]

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

You can't.

[NonstopChachacha]

Could you tell me why please ?

[GCDEF]

Could you tell me why please ?

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?