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QuestionIs CString really based on TCHAR? Pin
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Dean Seo wrote:
CString _str = TEXT("ABCD");
TCHAR* _tstr = _str;

That's not acceptable. _tstr is a pointer to a char (or wchar_t based on your build). But, _str is a CString variable and so, this conversion won't work.

Dean Seo wrote:
CString _str = TEXT("ABCD");
TCHAR* _tstr = (TCHAR*)(LPCTSTR)_str;

That's not a good thing to do either. LPCTSTR (with the added C in between means that it's a const). By explicitly casting it to a TCHAR*, you're casting the const away and then you are assigning it to a TCHAR* later.

Remember that CString is a C++ class. It uses a string (a char* or a wchar_t*) internally to store the contents, but it does a lot of other things as well. If you really need to acquire a pointer to the location where the class is storing the string, then there's this CString::GetBuffer()[^] method. There are some quirks associated with this method though, and you need to exercise caution while using it. If you call it, you want to make sure that you call CString::ReleaseBuffer()[^] immediately after you're done with the buffer. If you don't know what that means, you don't want to use that method.

I strongly recommend that you read the following essays:

The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part I - Win32 Character Encodings[^]

The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part II - String Wrapper Classes[^]

CString Management[^]
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

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