Read multiple .dat files in C++
<p>I used the code below to read one .dat file and find the execution time, it worked very well. I tried to build a loop to read multiple files as I have more than 20 files with different names (I need to keep their names), but it did not work. How can I develop this code to read all files located in a certain folder no matter how many they are? (based on following code)</p>

<pre><code>#include &lt;Windows.h&gt;
#include &lt;ctime&gt;
#include &lt;stdint.h&gt;
#include &lt;iostream&gt;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
#include &lt;fstream&gt;
using std::ifstream;

#include &lt;cstring&gt;

/* Returns the amount of milliseconds elapsed since the UNIX epoch. Works on both
 * windows and linux. */

uint64_t GetTimeMs64()
{


 FILETIME ft;
 LARGE_INTEGER li;

 /* Get the amount of 100 nano seconds intervals elapsed since January 1, 1601 (UTC) and copy it
  * to a LARGE_INTEGER structure. */
 GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&amp;ft);
 li.LowPart = ft.dwLowDateTime;
 li.HighPart = ft.dwHighDateTime;

 uint64_t ret;
 ret = li.QuadPart;
 ret -= 116444736000000000LL; /* Convert from file time to UNIX epoch time. */
 ret /= 10000; /* From 100 nano seconds (10^-7) to 1 millisecond (10^-3) intervals */

 return ret;

}




const int MAX_CHARS_PER_LINE = 512;
const int MAX_TOKENS_PER_LINE = 20;
const char* const DELIMITER = "|";

int main()
{
  // create a file-reading object
  ifstream fin;
  fin.open("promotion.txt"); // open a file
  if (!fin.good()) 
    return 1; // exit if file not found

  // read each line of the file
  while (!fin.eof())
  {
    // read an entire line into memory
    char buf[MAX_CHARS_PER_LINE];
    fin.getline(buf, MAX_CHARS_PER_LINE);

    // parse the line into blank-delimited tokens
    int n = 0; // a for-loop index

    // array to store memory addresses of the tokens in buf
    const char* token[MAX_TOKENS_PER_LINE] = {}; // initialize to 0

    // parse the line
    token[0] = strtok(buf, DELIMITER); // first token
    if (token[0]) // zero if line is blank
    {
      for (n = 1; n &lt; MAX_TOKENS_PER_LINE; n++)
      {
    token[n] = strtok(0, DELIMITER); // subsequent tokens
        if (!token[n]) break; // no more tokens
  }
}

    // process (print) the tokens
    for (int i = 0; i &lt; n; i++) // n = #of tokens
      cout &lt;&lt; "Token[" &lt;&lt; i &lt;&lt; "] = " &lt;&lt; token[i] &lt;&lt; endl;
    cout &lt;&lt; endl;
  }
  uint64_t z = GetTimeMs64();
  cout &lt;&lt; z &lt;&lt; endl;
  system("pause");
}
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