Question

I am using GetOpenFileName with multiple select capabilities. The files picked are returned in a LPSTR. Inside this LPSTR, the files selected are separated by NULL bytes. I want to split the LPSTR into an array and then loop over that array.

In PHP I would do:

 $array = explode("\0", $string);

But since I am new to C, I have no idea what I am doing.

Answer 1

You could do this to loop through the strings:

char *Buffer;             // your null-separated strings
char *Current;            // Pointer to the current string
// [...]
for (Current = Buffer; *Current; Current += strlen(Current) + 1)
  printf("GetOpenFileName returned: %s\n", Current);

You can adapt this code to create arrays if it’s really necessary.