Re: Strings again :(

From:
hamishd <Hamish.Dean@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:22:26 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<51c59bf7-e4c8-4983-800a-06dced8a161d@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 8, 12:31 pm, "David Webber" <d...@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk>
wrote:

"hamishd" <Hamish.D...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:dc1f26c5-6e3e-435a-9219-af0c908f09de@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

Hi - sorry this is my 3rd question recently. I'm having trouble with
strings and characters and unicode in general; can anybody suggest a
good article to read which explains the basics?

My project is _UNICODE defined. However, a file I got from codeproject
is not. Their code is below, but it cannot compile.

char szBuf[2001];
WORD cbBufMax = 2000;
WORD cbBufOut;
char *pszBuf = szBuf;

SQLGetInstalledDrivers(szBuf,cbBufMax,& cbBufOut);

I would have thought changing the char's to TCHAR's would fix..
however, I still get "error C2664: 'SQLGetInstalledDriversW' : cannot
convert parameter 1 from 'char [2001]' to 'unsigned short *'"


If you have TCHAR szBuf[2001] this should not happen.

In a UNICODE build TCHAR is WCHAR and teh function call is to SQL...W(..)
In a non-UNICODE build it is CHAR and SQL....A().

Are you sure you have used TCHAR consistently?


This is the entire function:

// Get the name of the Excel-ODBC driver
void CSpreadSheet::GetExcelDriver()
{
    char szBuf[2001];
    WORD cbBufMax = 2000;
    WORD cbBufOut;
    char *pszBuf = szBuf;

    // Get the names of the installed drivers ("odbcinst.h" has to be
included )
    if(!SQLGetInstalledDrivers(szBuf,cbBufMax,& cbBufOut))
    {
        m_sExcelDriver = "";
    }

    // Search for the driver...
    do
    {
        if( strstr( pszBuf, "Excel" ) != 0 )
        {
            // Found !
            m_sExcelDriver = CString( pszBuf );
            break;
        }
        pszBuf = strchr( pszBuf, '\0' ) + 1;
    }
    while( pszBuf[1] != '\0' );
}

The error message is the same regardless of whether or not i use
TCHAR, WCHAR, or char.

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