Re: Cstring, string ,and char[]
Asm23 wrote:
I have a problems on the file io.
when I use the dilog box to pick a txt file.
code is like below.
CFileDialog dlg(.......);
if(dlg.DoModal() == IDOK)
{ Cstring a;
a= dlg.GetPathName();
}
the "a" will assigned a filename of the txt file.
a is a Cstring type variable.
but in standard c++ ,I use the
string p;
p=????;//p is the file full path.
inFile.open(p);
if (!inFile)
{
cout << "Unable to open file";
return;
}
where p is a standard string class.
My question is How can I traslate among Cstring ,string and char[].
Is there any common methods?
Thank you! everyone who read my post!
To go from CString to std::string you need to go through const char*.
CString has automatic conversion to const char* so you can do:
CString s1 = "I am a CString";
std::string ss1 = s1;
To go the other way you must use the c_str() method:
std::string ss2 = "I am a std::string";
CString s2 = ss2.c_str();
BTW, in Windows programming you should generally code "Unicode aware":
typedef std::basic_string<TCHAR> tstring;
CString s1 = _T("I am a CString");
tstring ss1 = s1;
tstring ss2 = _T("I am a tstring");
CString s2 = ss2.c_str();
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