Re: Convert CString to LONG.

Control,

Giovanni is correct that you shouldn't mix metaphors. Many people say,
these days, that you should never use "char", but so long as you don't need
to do anything besides English it is still acceptable. What you don't want
to do is mix your types so having TCHAR then using strtol() could get you
into trouble. I prefer to always use the 't' version, and like David I
would not reassign the original value. I've seen a lot of people do this
sort of thing with std::string, for example,

#include <string>
namespace std {
#if defined _UNICODE || defined UNICODE
 typedef wstring tstring;
#else
 typedef string tstring;
#endif
}

So doing what David said and defining tcin and tcout the same would be a
better approach something like:

The whole mess with Unicode makes C++ way more difficult to use than any
other language. That's why I typically just use all the "T" macros:

TCHAR, _T(), etc.

I think they should have the tin tout stuff built in to be consistent, but
it doen't look like it is...

Tom

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