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From: Jonathan Arnold
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:30

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Sten Larsson wrote:
> How can I figure out if a path is a directory or a file? Preferrably in
> plain c (as opposed to Win32).

The stat function, while not ANSI C, is POSIX C, so it is in
most nearly any reasonable C library. You can test the mode:

struct stat statbuf;
stat( "C:/", &statbuf );
if ( statbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR )
{ // We have a directory
   ....
}


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