Re: LPCTSTR to std::string

From:
"Jacky Luk" <jl@knight.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:58:10 +0800
Message-ID:
<#4DOSAJ5GHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
doesn't seem to work well in 16-bit characters (foreign characters), the
assignment returns a trash string...

BOOL Cdecom7Doc::OnOpenDocument(LPCTSTR lpszPathName)
{
 std::string fileName;

 if (!CDocument::OnOpenDocument(lpszPathName))
  return FALSE;

 fileName = lpszPathName; <<<< trash!!!

// SetFileName(lpszPathName);

 m_pFile = new cFile();

 m_pFile->OpenfileEx(fileName);

 // TODO: Add your specialized creation code here

 return TRUE;
}

"Abdo Haji-Ali" <ahali@inframez.org_use_com_instead> ???g???l???s?D:uXYOkoI5GHA.2596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

"Jacky Luk" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message
news:uT4bsfI5GHA.2536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Hi
How to cast a LPCTSTR to std::string?

In this case it's not a "cast". It's an "assignment" or "copying"...

Do I just
m_fileName = lpszPathName;

This is the way to do it (it's called assignment)

or
strcpy (m_fileName, lpszPathName);

If you try this one it would give a compiler error, because you can't
"cast"
an std:string to char* (only const char*)

or
there is something more useful?

What do you mean by useful? Easier? Faster? Funnier :)

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