VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/FilenameFunctions

This example gets a list of all files in a directory. It then extracts the file extension and filename from each string.

FilenameFunctions.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkDirectory.h>
#include <vtksys/SystemTools.hxx>
#include <string>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  std::string directoryName;
  if(argc < 2)
  {
    directoryName = std::string(".");    
  }
  else
  {
    directoryName = std::string(argv[1]);    
  }

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkDirectory> directory = vtkSmartPointer<vtkDirectory>::New();
  int opened = directory->Open(directoryName.c_str());

  if(!opened)
  {
    std::cout << "Invalid directory!" << std::endl;
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }

  int numberOfFiles = directory->GetNumberOfFiles();
  std::cout << "Number of files: " << numberOfFiles << std::endl;

  for (int i = 0; i < numberOfFiles; i++)
  {
    std::string fileString = directoryName;
    fileString += "/";
    fileString += directory->GetFile(i);

    std::string ext = vtksys::SystemTools::GetFilenameLastExtension(fileString);
    std::cout << fileString << " extension: " << ext << std::endl;

    std::string name = vtksys::SystemTools::GetFilenameWithoutLastExtension(fileString);    
    std::cout << "name: " << name << std::endl;
  }

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

PROJECT(FilenameFunctions)

find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

add_executable(FilenameFunctions MACOSX_BUNDLE FilenameFunctions.cxx)

if(VTK_LIBRARIES)
  target_link_libraries(FilenameFunctions ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else()
  target_link_libraries(FilenameFunctions vtkHybrid vtkWidgets)
endif()

Download and Build FilenameFunctions

Click here to download FilenameFunctions. and its CMakeLists.txt file.

Once the tarball FilenameFunctions.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd FilenameFunctions/build 

• If VTK is installed:

cmake ..

• If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

make

and run it:

./FilenameFunctions

WINDOWS USERS PLEASE NOTE: Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.