Back slashes '\' and SHGetSpecialFolderPath

[caykahve]

It's not my application actually.. There might be several applications whose "theApp" I don't have.

[Achim Klein]

Sorry, I missed the point. If your want to wrap your path name, try something like that:

// puts the passed text into quotation marks
CString getWrapped(const CString& Text, char Esc)
{
CString buffer;

int size = Text.GetLength();

buffer += '"';

for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
{
	char c = Text\[i\];

	// insert escape character
	if ((c == '"') || (c == Esc))
	{
		buffer += Esc;
	}

	buffer += c;
}

buffer += '"';

return buffer;

}

CString test = getWrapped(path, '\\');

Is this your question? Regards

---

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa

[Achim Klein]

The example I posted recently was previously developed for the std::string class. If you are just using CString objects wrapping is even easier:

CString test;
test += "\"";
test += path;
test += "\"";
test.Replace("\\", "\\\\");

Regards

---

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa

[caykahve]

I do not want to put quotation marks to both ends of the text. I want to convert a string (i.e. CString) like C:\Program Files to C:\\Program Files - which is doubling the back slashes... Regards

[Achim Klein]

Ok, that's a one-liner :) If you have

CString test("C:\\Program Files");

just call

test.Replace("\\", "\\\\");

Regards

---

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa

[caykahve]

When the string has a backslash it acts differently. I know that to add a quotation mark, you need a backslash in front of it. CString::Insert and CString::operator + act different when there is a backslash in the CString object. I'm sorry to say that I could not get a result with the code you sent either. Regards -- modified at 7:48 Monday 29th August, 2005

[Achim Klein]

Ok, please give me a moment...

---

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa

[Achim Klein]

I'm a bit confused... I can't find a difference between CString::Insert and CString::operator+ I sent you an email with the example I have coded...

---

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa

[caykahve]

I see that it works with your code, but not with the code I have, which is similar to yours (see my initial message). I don't understand. Thanks and regards

[Achim Klein]

Hi, this time I implemented your posted code back-to-back and got the same error. The problem is related to the CString::GetBuffer() method. CString::GetBufferSetLength() should fix the problem. But I would prefer:

char buffer[_MAX_PATH];

SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, buffer, CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES, FALSE);

CString PFPath(buffer);

Regards

---

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Theresa

[caykahve]

Thank you very much, that works. Regards

[Jose Lamas Rios]

caykahve wrote: and the message box says: C:\Program Files I need to add something at the end of this string and then i try to use it in another function which needs the paths in double back slashes like: "C:\\Program Files" Then I try to do a conversion in PFPath in order to double the backslashes to change from "C:\Program Files" to "C:\Program Files" You don't actually need any conversion. The double back slash is needed only when you are writing a string literal in your code. That's because the back slash is a escape character (used in combinations like \t, \r and \n, to represent a tab, carrier return, and line feed characters), when what you want is an actual back slash character, you need to type it twice. However, the double back slash pair represents one (single) back slash character in memory. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]