Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. General Programming
  3. C / C++ / MFC
  4. Convert CString to char*

Convert CString to char*

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved C / C++ / MFC
question
15 Posts 6 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • 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.

    S Offline
    S Offline
    super_ttd
    wrote on last edited by
    #6

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


    T 1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • 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

      T Offline
      T Offline
      toxcct
      wrote on last edited by
      #7

      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().

      [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

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

      P L 2 Replies Last reply
      0
      • U USAFHokie80

        You rock.

        T Offline
        T Offline
        toxcct
        wrote on last edited by
        #8

        USAFHokie80 wrote:

        You rock

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

        [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • S super_ttd

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


          T Offline
          T Offline
          toxcct
          wrote on last edited by
          #9

          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...

          [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • T toxcct

            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().

            [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

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

            P Offline
            P Offline
            Perspx
            wrote on last edited by
            #10

            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

            U 1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • 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

              U Offline
              U Offline
              USAFHokie80
              wrote on last edited by
              #11

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

              T M 2 Replies Last reply
              0
              • T toxcct

                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().

                [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

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

                L Offline
                L Offline
                led mike
                wrote on last edited by
                #12

                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

                T 1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • U USAFHokie80

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

                  T Offline
                  T Offline
                  toxcct
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #13

                  USAFHokie80 wrote:

                  Yeah... GetBuffer doesn't work.

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

                  [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • L led mike

                    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

                    T Offline
                    T Offline
                    toxcct
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #14

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

                    [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • U USAFHokie80

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

                      M Offline
                      M Offline
                      Mark Salsbery
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #15

                      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:

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      Reply
                      • Reply as topic
                      Log in to reply
                      • Oldest to Newest
                      • Newest to Oldest
                      • Most Votes


                      • Login

                      • Don't have an account? Register

                      • Login or register to search.
                      • First post
                        Last post
                      0
                      • Categories
                      • Recent
                      • Tags
                      • Popular
                      • World
                      • Users
                      • Groups