how to find out types of files in Directory

Hi all,
Is there any utility which can tell me the types of files in a directory..
Or any C source code or any exe will work..
I posted this here coz C programmers are good at all this
things..

Once I was also a C Programmer but now I am hitting head at Java .

Hello there.

Can you be more specific...?

Are you referring to file attributes(hidden, system, etc...) or are you trying to find what's the associated process(word, excel, etc...) for a given file type?

If you want the attributes you can use the FindFirstFile and FindNextFile functions to retrieve the files and it's attributes.
Be aware that a folder is a special kind of file, thus it is retrieved as a files from the above functions.

In the other case you need to use the registry to find what is any process(application) attached to a given file type(by the way I think that's how Explorer gets the icons from the applications).

Hope this helps...

stat() is a portable call that will determine file types as well.

Associations are part of the Win API callled Shell Programming - starting with SHGetFileInfo and FindExecutable