Re: return string
Dave, Thank you very much. I like your 'cleanest' solution and understand
that Win32 APIs (eg GetCurrentDirectory) work that way,
I need a little more help with the construction of the APIs signature. If
the API is GetNewestFile, which takes one argument, a path and now will take
a buffer and another argument that is the length of the bufffer.
What would be the fignature of GetNewestFile? I can think of this:
_declspec (dllexport) char* _stdcall GetNewestFile(char *path,char* buf,int
buflen)
I'd do it like this (skipping the export & calling convention stuff
for clarity):
BOOL GetNewestFile( LPWSTR Path, UINT PathBufferLength );
It'd return TRUE (non-zero) if it succeeds, FALSE if something's
amiss.
Note that it'd be wide-character (Unicode) rather than ANSI - since
all supported Windows OS's are now natively Unicode - so ANSI doesn't
make much sense these days for file/path names.
A typical use would be like this:
WCHAR szPath[_MAX_PATH];
if ( GetNewestFile( szPath, _countof( szPath ) ) )
{
// szPath now contains whatever it should do...
Dave
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