Question

I have a few CString variables that I wish to output to an ofstream, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do so. Here’s some example code.

I have unicode enabled in VS 2005

CODE:

  ofstream ofile;
  CString str = "some text";

  ofile.open(filepath);
   ofile << str; // doesn't work, gives me some hex value such as 00C8F1D8 instead
    ofile << str.GetBuffer(str.GetLength()) << endl; // same as above
     ofile << (LPCTSTR)str << endl; // same as above

   // try copying CString to char array
  char strary[64];
  wcscpy_s(strary, str.GetBuffer()); // strary contents are correctly copied
  ofile << strary << endl ; // same hex value problem again!

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you just want plain ACP encoded ANSI text:

    ofile << CT2A(str);

ofstream formatted output functions expect narrow/ansi strings.

CStrings represent TCHAR strings.

The CT2A macro Converts TCHAR 2 Ansi.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr…8VS.80%29.aspx