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  • P Perspx

    This thread may be of use. Regards, --Perspx

    "The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

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    You rock.

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    • U USAFHokie80

      I want to get the entire string into a char array in case I can't figure out how to do something else.

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      super_ttd
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      I believe toxcct meant "what do you want to do that for ?"


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        This thread may be of use. Regards, --Perspx

        "The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

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        NO, definitely not ! GetBuffer() is not there for casting purpose ! Moreover, the OP seem not to really know what he wants that for, so instead of saying amen to a query-for-code, better understand why such a thing is asked for... I'm more likely to think he's trying to iterate on every characters of the string, so no need for cast for this ; a simple use of the [] operator would do ! BTW, I'm almost certain that Roger Allen (which is also a great codeproject member) would not reply so nowadays... notice that he replied so, but it was in year 2000 ! at last, read this[^] and tell me if you see somewhere in Microsoft recomendations to use GetBuffer().

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          You rock.

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          USAFHokie80 wrote:

          You rock

          Probably, but certainly not on this post... please read my answer to him[^]

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            I believe toxcct meant "what do you want to do that for ?"


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            super_ttd wrote:

            what do you want to do that for ?

            exactly. As I am suspecting the OP to have asked this for a darken reason, I'm not sure casting the CString object would be worth it...

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              NO, definitely not ! GetBuffer() is not there for casting purpose ! Moreover, the OP seem not to really know what he wants that for, so instead of saying amen to a query-for-code, better understand why such a thing is asked for... I'm more likely to think he's trying to iterate on every characters of the string, so no need for cast for this ; a simple use of the [] operator would do ! BTW, I'm almost certain that Roger Allen (which is also a great codeproject member) would not reply so nowadays... notice that he replied so, but it was in year 2000 ! at last, read this[^] and tell me if you see somewhere in Microsoft recomendations to use GetBuffer().

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              modified on Friday, August 22, 2008 11:16 AM

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              I was merely posting a link to a thread that was of the same subject - I was not involved with any of those thread posts I thought it would be helpful to USAFHokie80 here.. Regards, --Perspx

              "The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

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              • P Perspx

                I was merely posting a link to a thread that was of the same subject - I was not involved with any of those thread posts I thought it would be helpful to USAFHokie80 here.. Regards, --Perspx

                "The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

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                Yeah... GetBuffer doesn't work. But this works: char* str = (char*)(LPCTSTR)str2

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                  NO, definitely not ! GetBuffer() is not there for casting purpose ! Moreover, the OP seem not to really know what he wants that for, so instead of saying amen to a query-for-code, better understand why such a thing is asked for... I'm more likely to think he's trying to iterate on every characters of the string, so no need for cast for this ; a simple use of the [] operator would do ! BTW, I'm almost certain that Roger Allen (which is also a great codeproject member) would not reply so nowadays... notice that he replied so, but it was in year 2000 ! at last, read this[^] and tell me if you see somewhere in Microsoft recomendations to use GetBuffer().

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                  modified on Friday, August 22, 2008 11:16 AM

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                  led mike
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                  toxcct wrote:

                  Moreover, the OP seem not to really know what he wants that for, so instead of saying amen to a query-for-code, better understand why such a thing is asked for...

                  better understand stuff! BAH, we don't need no freakin understanding we just writ cods plezzzzz :laugh:

                  led mike

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                  • U USAFHokie80

                    Yeah... GetBuffer doesn't work. But this works: char* str = (char*)(LPCTSTR)str2

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                    USAFHokie80 wrote:

                    Yeah... GetBuffer doesn't work.

                    hum, correction : GetBuffer DOES work, but it's not there for that. ;P

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                      toxcct wrote:

                      Moreover, the OP seem not to really know what he wants that for, so instead of saying amen to a query-for-code, better understand why such a thing is asked for...

                      better understand stuff! BAH, we don't need no freakin understanding we just writ cods plezzzzz :laugh:

                      led mike

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                      lol... was it urgentz ? I didn't read so, so it means I had time to think about design ! :laugh:

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                      • U USAFHokie80

                        Yeah... GetBuffer doesn't work. But this works: char* str = (char*)(LPCTSTR)str2

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                        That's a horrible cast, and a good example why casts are bad. If you needed the cast to get that to compile then you did something wrong. It should be const char* str = str2; If your CString is always based on a "char" character type, then you should be using a CStringA. Mixing generic and fixed character types negates the usefulness of generic character types (i.e. your code will fail on a Unicode build). Mark

                        Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

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