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IDiaSession::findChildren

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Retrieves all children of a specified parent identifier that match the name and symbol type.

Syntax

HRESULT findChildren (   
   IDiaSymbol*       parent,  
   SymTagEnum        symtag,  
   LPCOLESTR         name,  
   DWORD             compareFlags,  
   IDiaEnumSymbols** ppResult  
);

Parameters

parent
[in] An IDiaSymbol object representing the parent. If this parent symbol is a function, module, or block, then its lexical children are returned in ppResult. If the parent symbol is a type, then its class children are returned. If this parameter is NULL, then symtag must be set to SymTagExe or SymTagNull, which returns the global scope (.exe file).

symtag
[in] Specifies the symbol tag of the children to be retrieved. Values are taken from the SymTagEnum Enumeration enumeration. Set to SymTagNull to retrieve all children.

name
[in] Specifies the name of the children to be retrieved. Set to NULL for all children to be retrieved.

compareFlags
[in] Specifies the comparison options applied to name matching. Values from the NameSearchOptions Enumeration enumeration can be used alone or in combination.

ppResult
[out] Returns an IDiaEnumSymbols object that contains the list of child symbols retrieved.

Return Value

If successful, returns S_OK; otherwise, returns an error code.

Example

The following example shows how to find local variables of function pFunc that match name szVarName.

IDiaEnumSymbols* pEnum;  
pSession->findChildren( pFunc, SymTagData, szVarName, nsCaseSensitive, &pEnum );

See Also

Overview
IDiaEnumSymbols
IDiaSession
IDiaSymbol
NameSearchOptions Enumeration
SymTagEnum Enumeration