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SYMBIAN OS V6.1 EDITION FOR C++

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Using CDirScan


Setting up the scan using SetScanDataL()

Taking the above directory structure, if SetScanData() is called as follows:

_LIT(KDirText,"C:\\TopDir\\");
...
SetScanDataL(KDirText,KEntryAttDir,ESortByName|EAscending,CDirScan::EScanDownTree);
...

then the directories are scanned, by repeatedly calling CDirScan::NextL() in the following order: TopDir, Dir1, Dir2, Dir3, Dir4, Dir5, Dir6, Dir7. The sort key of EAscending means that multiple directories within the same parent directory are scanned in ascending alphabetic or numeric order.

If the scan direction is upwards, i.e.CDirScan::EScanUpTree, the directories are scanned in the order: Dir2, Dir4, Dir3, Dir1, Dir6, Dir7, Dir5, TopDir.

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Parsing paths using FullPath()

If the full path of the entry currently being scanned is:

C:\Topdir\Middledir\Bottomdir\

and the top level directory in the scan as passed to SetScanDataL() is:

C:\Topdir\

then: