Question

I’m trying to access individual bytes of a wide-char array so that I can send it via winsock, and this is what I’ve got so far:

WCHAR* buffer_in_bytes = (WCHAR*)msc->wcArray;
unsigned char l;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i <= (msc->bSize*2); i++ )
{
    l = (unsigned char)(*(buffer_in_bytes +i));
    char s[256] ;
    _itoa(l,s,16);
    OutputDebugString(s);
}

They array contains a series of a(s) (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….), and I would expect to see 00 61 00 61 00 61 as a result I get 61 61 61 61 61 61

Any ideas why?

Answer 1

Each element contains an ‘a’, or ASCII 61, which is what you see printed. I don’t know why you would expect to see these interspersed with 0’s.