Empty Directory Utility Under NT

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Environment: Tested on Windows NT (SP5) with Visual C++ 6 (SP4)

Description

What is it ?

A “Del [Path]*.*” /sxyz” NT utility.

Explanations:

I had to write a “Empty Directory” utility on WIN NT, without using Shell. So I wrote this function. I think it can be usefull
for programmers who don’t have time to learn Files under NT.

This is a recursive function which delete all the directories and files inside the directory sent as a parameter (sPath).
The Parameter ‘sPath’ has to be a full path name without “\” at the end.

So is it !

Attention !

With this call, you can empty every directory also important one.
I am not responsible for deleting important data with my Code !

Return Value:

TRUE if the directory exists,

FALSE if it not.

Code

// Include this line before your code where you call 

// this function !

BOOL EmptyDirectory(CString &sPath);

// This is a recursive function which empty a directory path 

// of its files and call itself if necessary to delete

// subdirectories.

BOOL EmptyDirectory(CString &sPath)

{

 CFileFind finder;
 CString  sWildCard = sPath + “\*.*”;
 BOOL bFound;

 BOOL bWorking = finder.FindFile(sWildCard);
 bFound = bWorking;
 while (bWorking)

 {

  bWorking = finder.FindNextFile();
  if (finder.IsDots()) continue;
  if (finder.IsDirectory())

  {

   CString s = finder.GetFilePath();

   EmptyDirectory(s);

   RemoveDirectory(finder.GetFilePath());

   continue;

  }

  _unlink( finder.GetFilePath() );
 }
 return bFound;

}