I basically want to be able to give a directory as a parameter and I want it to give me back a list of all files contained in that directory and subdirectories.

It seems like every introductory C++ book in the known universe talks about fstream and how to read and write files, but I can't seem to find anything that explains how to get a list of the files ...

How to list contents of a directory in a file? In MS-DOS (or in Windows from the command prompt) it is possible to send the information obtained by the DIR command to a text file instead of displaying ...