Re: passing a string to a dll

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"SteveR" <srussell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O0bV%23OZ%23HHA.1212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

if(s != _T("12345") )

Call me paranoid, but...

Yes, I know there's a "!=" operator for this which should be used, but CString also has a cast to LPCTSTR and so it can read somewhat ambiguously that one might be just comparing the locations of the two strings. So I always use

if( s.Compare( _T("12345") ) )

in circumstances like this. (Also I tent to need CompareNoCase() as often as not, so I'm used to it.)

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