Re: simple question about CString

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:27:17 +0100
Message-ID:
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"Tony Johansson" <t.johansson@logica.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:OS%23HeD$TJHA.588@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Hello!

If I have a method foo that return a value of type CString
and then assign the value to myLPSTR which is of type LPSTR see below do I
then have to
free this myLPSTR or will it just go out of scope.

LPSTR myLPSTR;

myLPSTR = foo(some parameters here);


To add to what was already written, if you really need a LPSTR (i.e. char *,
non const, and non TCHAR), you may want to use CT2A conversion helper class
to convert the string from TCHAR to ANSI/MBCS, using code like this:

<code>

#include <atlbase.h>
#include <atlstr.h>

CString Foo(int a)
{
    CString msg;
    msg.Format(TEXT("[Foo] a = %d"), a);
    return msg;
}

int main()
{
    CString str = Foo(10);

    // Convert the string to an ANSI/MBCS string
    CT2A ansiStr(str);

    // Get the pointer
    LPSTR psz = ansiStr;

    printf("%s\n", psz);

    return 0;
}

</code>

If you give us more detailed information and some code snippet, we could
give better help.

HTH,
Giovanni

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