Re: CString to Unicode

From:
Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:17:33 +0100
Message-ID:
<u2jnc4-i33.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>
pfArt wrote:

I want to convert a ANSI CString to a Unicode CString but none of the
options seems to work...


CString is based on TCHAR, who's meaning varies...

I'm working in VS6 and program is build with _UNICODE.


....so a TCHAR is now a wchar_t.

Here is a example of what i want:

CString test1="test string";


With TCHAR=wchar_t, this already does a conversion char->wchar_t.

CString test2 = L"test string";


This is a simple copy.

CString test3;

Now in test3 I try to store test1 as unicode


Since a conversion took place, test1 already contains wchar_t, which are
Unicode under win32.

so I can execute the next statement:

if (test2.CompareNoCase(test3)==0)
{
//Do something
}


That just works. What's the problem?

I've tried :
* test3 = T2CW(test1);


Should work, assuming you somewhere used the 'USES_CONVERSION' macro.

* BSTR aBuf = NULL;
  aBuf = test1.AllocSysString();
  SysFreeString(aBuf);
  test3 = aBuf;


Nah, too complicated and too much manual resource handling. ;)

* test3=_T(test1) //error


_T() is a macro, which can only be applied to string literals and prefixes
them with nothing or 'L', depending on the _UNICODE macros. test1 is a
string object, so this can't work.

* and many others, but none of them work here

Anyone got a solution?


Peter, if you say something doesn't work, you should be a bit more specific.
If you have time, take a look at Eric S. Raymond's essay on 'asking smart
questions', it contains explanations you could make use of (in fact anybody
could).

Uli

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