According to CodeGuru:
CString
to std::string
:
CString cs("Hello"); std::string s((LPCTSTR)cs);
BUT: std::string
cannot always construct from a LPCTSTR
. i.e. the code will fail for UNICODE builds.
As std::string
can construct only from LPSTR
/ LPCSTR
, a programmer who uses VC++ 7.x or better can utilize conversion classes such as CT2CA
as an intermediary.
CString cs ("Hello"); // Convert a TCHAR string to a LPCSTR CT2CA pszConvertedAnsiString (cs); // construct a std::string using the LPCSTR input std::string strStd (pszConvertedAnsiString);
std::string
to CString
: (From Visual Studio’s CString FAQs…)
std::string s("Hello"); CString cs(s.c_str());
CStringT
can construct from both character or wide-character strings. i.e. It can convert from char*
(i.e. LPSTR
) or from wchar_t*
(LPWSTR
).
In other words, char-specialization (of CStringT
) i.e. CStringA
, wchar_t
-specilization CStringW
, and TCHAR
-specialization CString
can be constructed from either char
or wide-character, null terminated (null-termination is very important here) string sources.
Althoug IInspectable amends the “null-termination” part in the comments:
NUL-termination is not required.
CStringT
has conversion constructors that take an explicit length argument. This also means that you can constructCStringT
objects fromstd::string
objects with embeddedNUL
characters.