ENH: add a higher performance method to get the number of files in a directory

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/kwsys/Directory.hxx.in b/Source/kwsys/Directory.hxx.in
index 22aafcc..ddb9104 100644
--- a/Source/kwsys/Directory.hxx.in
+++ b/Source/kwsys/Directory.hxx.in
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ public:
   unsigned long GetNumberOfFiles() const;
 
   /**
+   * Return the number of files in the specified directory.
+   * A higher performance static method.
+   */
+  static unsigned long GetNumberOfFilesInDirectory(const char*);
+
+  /**
    * Return the file at the given index, the indexing is 0 based
    */
   const char* GetFile(unsigned long) const;