Single char poniters to Cstring

[meisterbartsch]

Hi NG,

I have got a starting pointer of a char series (mxArrayToString(pa)).
I also know the length (number of elements by mxGetNumberOfElements) I
want to read.

How do I get a Cstring from those Informations?

I had the Idea to do the following

char* Ps = new char[NumberOfElements(pa)+1];
for (int i=0;i<mxGetNumberOfElements(pa);++i)
{
Ps[i]=*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char));
TRACE("%c",*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char))); //debug
}

but this does not work for me. Afterwards I wanted to get a Cstring
from "Ps"...

Any Ideas how to do it right?

Best regards

Patrick

[Victor Bazarov]

meisterbartsch wrote:

I have got a starting pointer of a char series (mxArrayToString(pa)).

Not sure what "a char series" is. Could you explain?

I also know the length (number of elements by mxGetNumberOfElements) I
want to read.

Did you write the 'mx' functions? What are they? What's "pa"? How
is it declared/defined?

How do I get a Cstring from those Informations?

What's a Cstring?

>
I had the Idea to do the following

char* Ps = new char[NumberOfElements(pa)+1];
for (int i=0;i<mxGetNumberOfElements(pa);++i)
{
Ps[i]=*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char));
TRACE("%c",*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char))); //debug
}

but this does not work for me. Afterwards I wanted to get a Cstring
from "Ps"...

Any Ideas how to do it right?

Nope. Not enough information. Sorry.

V
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[meisterbartsch]

On 15 Jun., 14:59, "Victor Bazarov" <[e-mail]:

meisterbartsch wrote:

I have got a starting pointer of a char series (mxArrayToString(pa)).

Not sure what "a char series" is. Could you explain?

I also know the length (number of elements by mxGetNumberOfElements) I
want to read.

Did you write the 'mx' functions? What are they? What's "pa"? How
is it declared/defined?

How do I get a Cstring from those Informations?

What's a Cstring?

I had the Idea to do the following

char* Ps = new char[NumberOfElements(pa)+1];
for (int i=0;i<mxGetNumberOfElements(pa);++i)
{
Ps[i]=*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char));
TRACE("%c",*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char))); //debug
}

but this does not work for me. Afterwards I wanted to get a Cstring
from "Ps"...

Any Ideas how to do it right?

Nope. Not enough information. Sorry.

V
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I want to put single characters (I access by knowing the pointers)
into a string (CString is a VC++ Object).

Thats all ;)

[Amol]

Patrick why don't you use built in library functions?
Like strdup() in <cstring>
also why do you need mxArrayToString()?
if it is like this
char a[20];
then following code must be valid
char* pa = a;

further you are doing mess with the pointers, because you don't need
to multiply the sizeof to the pointer to go to the next element the
compiler will do for you.

for example the line
TRACE("%c",*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char))); //debug

can simply be written as
TRACE("%c",*(pa+i)); //debug

Finally you don't even need all this if you use the C++ standard
library string.

Hope I've interpreted what you want to say and if so helped you to
solve the problem.

[Victor Bazarov]

meisterbartsch wrote:

[..]
I want to put single characters (I access by knowing the pointers)
into a string (CString is a VC++ Object).

CString is [considered] unknown in this newsgroup, unless you provide
its definition, because it's not a standard class. You might have
better luck asking in the newsgroup with "MFC" in its name.

If you'd like to continue posting here I suggest you first visit the
FAQ, especially section 5. http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/

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[meisterbartsch]

On 15 Jun., 15:13, Amol <[e-mail]:

Patrick why don't you use built in library functions?
Like strdup() in <cstring>
also why do you need mxArrayToString()?
if it is like this
char a[20];
then following code must be valid
char* pa = a;

further you are doing mess with the pointers, because you don't need
to multiply the sizeof to the pointer to go to the next element the
compiler will do for you.

for example the line
TRACE("%c",*(mxArrayToString(pa)+i*sizeof(char))); //debug

can simply be written as
TRACE("%c",*(pa+i)); //debug

Finally you don't even need all this if you use the C++ standard
library string.

Hope I've interpreted what you want to say and if so helped you to
solve the problem.

Thank you very much... I cleaned the mess first of all.

I am going to check what string (STL) could do for me.

[Default User]

Amol wrote:

Patrick why don't you use built in library functions?
Like strdup() in <cstring>

There is no such function defined in the standard library.

Brian