How to convert Platform::String to char*?

Question

How do I convert the contents of a Platform::String to be used by functions that expect a char* based string? I\'m assuming WinRT provides helper functions for this but I ju

Answer 1

There's the String::Data method returning const char16*, which is the raw unicode string.

Conversion from unicode to ascii or whatever, i.e. char16* to char*, is a different matter. You probably don't need it since most methods have their wchar versions these days.