Question

I was wondering if there is any advantage (for shorter strings only) of using a string datatype instead of a char array, or simply the string such as:

TextOut(hDC, 10, 10, "Hello", sizeof("HEllO") - 1)

Answer 1

In practice, this doesn’t matter at all.

That said, the Win32 APIs require LPSTRs or LPWSTRs, so anything which is not “one of those” will first have to be converted into the appropriate char* type, so a very tiny bit of extra work is required.

I’d say the vastly bigger consideration is using a datatype which is convenient/familiar/easy for you to work with.