Re: Get ASCII value for character when higher than 127

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On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:45:56 -0500, David Wilkinson
<no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


char path[80];
strcpy (path,"C:\\pwds\\");
strcat (path,timeString);
strcat (path,".txt");


char xmlmsg[200];
strcpy (xmlmsg,"<userpwd><username>");
strcat (xmlmsg,usernameStr);
strcat (xmlmsg,"</username><password>");
strcat (xmlmsg,passwordStr);
strcat (xmlmsg,"</password></userpwd>");

Sandra:

A few things I notice:

To add to David's notes, I would deprecate the use of char buffer and
strcpy and strcat... better using std::ostringstream and operator <<
or at least the safe versions of str... functions (when you specify
the buffer size to avoid buffer overruns).

MrAsm
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