How to get list of files with a specific extension in a given folder?

Question

I want to get the file names of all files that have a specific extension in a given folder (and recursively, its subfolders). That is, the file name (and extension), not the full file path. This is incredibly simple in languages like Python, but I'm not familiar with the constructs for this in C++. How can it be done?

Answer 1

#define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 3
#define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED 
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

namespace fs = boost::filesystem;

/**
 * \brief   Return the filenames of all files that have the specified extension
 *          in the specified directory and all subdirectories.
 */
std::vector<fs::path> get_all(fs::path const & root, std::string const & ext)
{
    std::vector<fs::path> paths;

    if (fs::exists(root) && fs::is_directory(root))
    {
        for (auto const & entry : fs::recursive_directory_iterator(root))
        {
            if (fs::is_regular_file(entry) && entry.path().extension() == ext)
                paths.emplace_back(entry.path().filename());
        }
    }

    return paths;
}