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Hey all. I have a small problem. I have a string called hexed. inside hexed for example is the string "003eb". I need to be able to convert this string into a char* because i have a predefined function that converts hexadecimal to decimal but its parameter that needs to be passed to it is a char *. I have been looking into a few things and Im just a little confused on how to implement it.
Apr 14 '09 #1
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Banfa
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You can't convert string to char *. You can convert string to const char * using the method string::c_str.

To do what you want you would need to copy the string to an array of char of an appropriate length using strcpy and string::c_str, call your function then assign the result back to your string.

It may be easier or at least produce cleaner code to re-write (or write an overload for) you function that operates directly on a string.
Apr 14 '09 #2
Studlyami
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I have used this to assign a CString to a char *.

char* = (char *) (LPCTSTR)CStrin g;

I don't know if that will help you or not.
Apr 17 '09 #3
Banfa
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Since the op is planning on writing data to that pointer that would be a really bad idea. You have cast away the constness of a pointer, always a disaster waiting to happen.

However mentioning CString if you happen to be using MFC and CString then you can call the method GetBuffer which returns a char * and allows you to specify the size of the buffer that the returned pointer points to (not forgetting to call ReleaseBuffer once finished)
Apr 17 '09 #4
Studlyami
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I didn't see where he stated that he was going to write to it, but yeah is definitely something to look out for and I should have stated that. If the function only reads items in the char* it should work fine, but it isn't safe. Thanks for the tip about the GetBuffer, I'll have to try it out.
Apr 18 '09 #5
weaknessforcats
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char* = (char *) (LPCTSTR)CStrin g;
Be careful of this code. CString be either a char* string or a wchar_t* string. And you can't tell which.

Once you start using TCHAR mappings, like LPCTSTR, then you can no longer use the natives types directly. Everything must now be TCHAR.

The char* would become a PTCHAR.
Apr 19 '09 #6

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