GetFileAttributesEx

1 Description
2 Syntax
3 Parameters
4 Return
5 Examples
6 Remark
7 See Also
8 header to Include
9 Reference

Description

Retrieves attributes for a specified file or directory. It is similar to GetFileAttributes, but it returns more information - in addition to attributes, it also returns various file times and file size.

Syntax

BOOL GetFileAttributesEx( LPCSTR lpcszFilename, int nInfoLevel, WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA * lpFileInfo )

Parameters

lpcszFilename: [input] full pathname of the file
nInfoLevel: [input] must be 0.
lpFileInfo: [output] pointer to the WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA which will receive the information; about the file:; typedef struct _WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA {; DWORD dwFileAttributes; // attributes (the same as for the function GetFileAttributes); FILETIME ftCreationTime; // creation time; FILETIME ftLastAccessTime; // last access time; FILETIME ftLastWriteTime; // last modification time; DWORD nFileSizeHigh; // the high DWORD of the file size (it is zero unless the file is over four gigabytes); DWORD nFileSizeLow; // the low DWORD of the file size; } WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA;

Return

Returns FALSE if file sepcified is not a valid file name or directory name

Returns TRUE if succeed

Examples

EX1

int GetFileAttributesEx_ex1()
{
    string filename =  "c:\\config.sys";

    WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA    fileInfo;

    if(GetFileAttributesEx(filename, 0, &fileInfo))
    {
        int    nSize = fileInfo.nFileSizeLow;
        out_int("File size=", nSize);
    }
    else
        out_str("file not found");
    return 1;
}