Question

How do I get a substring of a LPCTSTR?

Answer 1

LPCSTR is just fancy name for char *, it doesn’t have methods.

If you use std::string you could use the find and substr methods to extract the first and second part of the string.

Edit: As noted by Christoph, the type of TCHAR differs depending on if UNICODE is defined or not. If UNICODE is defined (check with #ifdef UNICODE, do a Google search on preprocessor to learn more about things like #define and #ifdef) you need to use std::wstring instead of std::string.

Edit 2: An easier solution than checking if you need to use std::string or std::wstring all the time, is to follow the advice of Konrad Rudolph and create a new typedef similar to std::string and std::wstring. Something like this:

typedef std::basic_string<TCHAR> tstring;

And then use that string type internally.