Question

BYTE name[1000];

In my visual c++ project there is a variable defined name with the BYTE data type. If i am not wrong then BYTE is equivalent to unsigned char. Now i want to convert this unsigned char * to LPCTSTR.

How should i do that?

Answer 1

LPCTSTR is defined as either char const* or wchar_t const* based on whether UNICODE is defined or not.

• If UNICODE is defined, then you need to convert the multi-byte string to a wide-char string using MultiByteToWideChar.

• If UNICODE is not defined, a simple cast will suffice: static_cast< char const* >( name ).

This assumes that name is a null-terminated c-string, in which case defining it BYTE would make no sense. You should use CHAR or TCHAR, based on how are you operating on name.