Re: WCHAR
Igor Tandetnik wrote:
"Jacky" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message
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::GetCurrentDirectoryA( MAX_PATH, (LPSTR) sNewPath );
strcat ((char *)sNewPath, "\\data");
strcat ((char *)sNewPath, (const char *)wszTexName);
are there any more reliable way of doing this?
I want to give up on "strcat" but what about any good sub?
See PathAppend, PathCombine
Igor:
I have never used these two methods, but it is not clear to me that they
are any safer than using strcat.
In fact the VC6 documentation contains an example that features a
guaranteed buffer overrun (not to mention two C++ errors, and use of
char rather than TCHAR and <iostream.h> rather than <iostream>).
In the VC7 documentation the buffer overrun is fixed, but the other
problems are still there, including use of <iostream.h> which will not
compile on VC7.
I always just build these paths using CString, which is not so efficient
of course, but safer.
David Wilkinson
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