[SOLVED] Expanding wildcards in directory paths

[kierans]

I'm a newbie to C++/Qt.

Looking at the docs for QDir, one can filter for a "type" of file (eg: *.txt) however can QDir expand wildcards in the path?

For example if I have the following dir structure:
@
foo
-> bar
-> one.txt
-> two.txt
@
If I was above foo, and wanted to find foo//.txt how would one do it with QDir? Is it even possible? Or would I have to do a manual walk over the segments in the path?

[rcari]

I think you will have to walk through the children manually because QDir only display its direct child nodes in the filesystem.

[goetz]

You will have to manually walk through the subdirs. For filtering, have a look at "QDir::entryInfoList() ":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qdir.html#entryInfoList

[kierans]

Thanks guys. I've already begun code to manually walk the subdirs. It would be a nice feature to have in QDir of course ;)