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- From: myles lu <idlu@direct.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: file comparison lists
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:35:56 -0800
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- I'm myles, a high school student at DTSS in vancouver bc
- i'm a semi-intermediate programmer. i have a question about a project i
- need to do...
-
- i want to do something like this: let's say i have five
- file lists. they're simply text files in five different directories that
- list all the files in that directory sort of like below. accompanied on
- the same line is a description. (much like a file list for a bbs)
-
- autoexec.bat startup file
- myhomwrk.txt chemistry notes...
- essay.001 eng. essay
- ... ...
-
- and so on. so i need to set up a procedure(s) that can compare the five
- files for duplications. my teacher will have five directories some with
- duplicate files. assumming that the file list file is correct i am to
- cross check and then ask the user which one to delete.
- then also i'm supposed to update the file list just in case there may be
- some files that didn't make it on the list.
-
- should i load everything into an array??? how should i approach this?
- any suggestions? thanx. do you know of any good educational C++ sites
- that might assist me?
-
- thanx again
-
- --
- from Myles Lu
- c/o email: idlu@direct.ca
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