RE: FW: [Dev-C++] Win32 Shell API

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Sorry, anything working on zero-terminated strings would fail. Only code
working on length-specified strings can work. And you can't just convert
from char* to a std::string since that convertion knows that the c string
is zero-terminated and ends early.

But why do you want to print the string? Easiest to print it is to loop
through the sub-strings until the \0\0 is found, but when the string is
correct, there is no need to print it - just use it for the file copy.

/Per W

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Guillermo Gutierrez wrote:

> ah of course...I was beginning to suspect as much.
>
> [...]
> > And of course, you can not use std::cout to emit a char* or char[] that
> > contains '\0' in the middle...
> [...]
>
> would printf() be ok to emit that char*/char[] with?