How am I misusing CA2W?

Question

Please can someone explain why this is not working?

char *test = "test";
_TCHAR *szTest = CA2W(test);

And please tell me what should I do instead.

Instead of giving me equal text, it gives me:

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+2

Nick bolton 23 oct. 09 at 14:15

1 answer

Nick bolton · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-23T15:21:27+0000

According to MSDN, this is bad. So I used this instead:

char *test = "test";
CA2W szTest(test);

From here we can get the LPWSTR type if we really want to:

LPWSTR test = szTest.m_psz;

It's also better to use LPWSTR instead of _TCHAR * - but I'm not sure (I think they are essentially the same thing, but they might be wrong).