Question

Now i have this code, but it always set null

UNICODE_STRING str;
char *cmp = "Hello";

RtlInitUnicodeString (&str, L"Hello world!");

if( ( strstr((char * )str.Buffer, cmp) ) != NULL)
{
   // cmp founded in str.
}
else
{
   // cmp not founded in str. Always here, but why??
}

Can you explain me why strstr in my case always null?

Answer 1

You’re searching for a multi-byte string in a Unicode one. Use wcsstr:

wchar * cmp = L"Hello";
wcsstr(str.Buffer, cmp);

You were hiding this by casting to char *.

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You should really ask another question for your second request, but you might write a function like this:

void make_string_lower(WCHAR * str)
{
  while(str[0] != '\0') {
    if(iswalpha(str[0] && !iswlower(str[0]))) {
      str[0] = towlower(str[0]);
    }

    str++;
  }
}

Alternatively use _wcslwr.