Re: String Manipulations

Mark <mark_ivey4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can anyone provide information for how to retrieve the actual
> character string from a CString object?

CString str;
LPCTSTR p = str;

> I am using the following code but it only returns the address of the
> string and not the literal characters of the string. I know it has to
> be something simple that I am overlooking but I have copied samples
> from MS that are supposed to work but give the same results
>
> CString strSports("Hockey is Best!");
>
> TCHAR sz[1024];
>
> lstrcpy(sz, strSports);
>
> cout << strSports ;

Why did you copy into sz buffer if you never use it?

> If I follow documentation provided by Microsoft which states:
> // while this line will put the content of the string out:
>
> cout << (LPCTSTR) strSports;
>
> I still only receive the address of the CString object at the console.

It appears that you are building a Unicode build. If so, use wcout
instead of cout.
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Igor Tandetnik

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land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
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