Re: Text File problem - VC++ MFC Studio 2008 MFC app

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:23:27 -0700
Message-ID:
<6877A95B-CC97-451C-B188-A35140175E9A@microsoft.com>
Hi G,

The documentation says "Compute the number of elements in a
statically-allocated array." so you are correct. I think with CString is is
safer to use GetLength() and I believe you could use CFileA as well.
_countof is very handy for many uses though.

Tom

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message
news:uvLMlkOGJHA.5944@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:vi82d41tv12etkakv35oombsfa5pcvdno5@4ax.com...

This is storing 8-bit characters to a CString. It should not even
compile if the CString
is a Unicode string. If you really want 8-bit characters, you would
declare
CStringA ap_cs;
****

int proof_i;
proof_i=shutfile.Open(filid,CFile::modeCreate|CFile::modeWrite);

shutfile.Write(ap_cs,sizeof(ap_cs));

****
You should intrinsically mistrust sizeof() in the context of knowing the
size of any
character information. This worked in 1975 but it is not current
practice. You should
write
sizeof(ap_cs) / sizeof(ap_cs[0])
or
sizeof(ap_cs) / sizeof(TCHAR)
or
_countof(ap_cs)
(which works in VS2005 and later)


Joe: please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that what you wrote is
not true.

The _countof works only for static arrays like:

 TCHAR buf[ 100 ];

 _countof( buf ); // == 100

but not if _countof parameter is a TCHAR * or a CString...

Giovanni

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