C++ LPCTSTR to char*

Question

I am using visual studio 2010 MFC to build a C++ program. My program calls a DLL that is not apart of the project and it accepts a char*. I have a function that gets a string in

Answer 1

In MFC the easiest is to convert through CStringA (provided that resulting buffer will be a read-only argument):

LPCTSTR pszA = ...
CStringA sB(pszA);
const char* pszC = sB;
char* pszD = const_cast(pszC);

Other options are available and were discussed:

• c++ convert from LPCTSTR to const char *
• How to convert from LPCTSTR to LPSTR?
• WideCharToMultiByte, T2A macros etc.