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 ...

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.

On the Windows platform, the C++ language offers several ways to process a file. We'll look at four approaches for serial IO access. Reading and writing to a file is one of the most required features ...