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19-Jan-06 1:10

Does anybody know how to assign a TCHAR* fromo a LPTSTR.
This is my code:

p->shi502_netname ="test";<br />
LPTSTR h =p->shi502_netname ;<br />
TCHAR* var = h;<br />
<br />
cout<<var<<endl;

output: t

when I try to print out h i get the first letter of string pointed to by h;
I thing im no accessing the string from the pointer correctly

Kelvin Cikomo

Owner drawn19-Jan-06 1:18

19-Jan-06 1:18

kelprinc wrote:
p->shi502_netname ="test";

_tcscpy(p->shi502_netname, _T("test"));

I think you should copy _T("test") to "p->shi502_netname".

Now it should work.

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 1:25

19-Jan-06 1:25

It did not work
I think i shld rephrase my question.

I want to access the string being pointed to by shi502_netname
i.e if i just type

cout<<p->shi502_netname<

Owner drawn19-Jan-06 1:30

19-Jan-06 1:30

kelprinc wrote:

TCHAR * shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;

cout<<var<<endl;
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Here this is printing fine.

What is this p->shi502_netname. Is this a pointer to a char or a single char.

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 1:38

19-Jan-06 1:38

We are on totally different wave lengths.

Forget about the first part. Assume you have a struct p that has shi502_netname as its member. shi502_netname is of type LPTSTR.

now i want to print the LPTSTR string in the p struct.

I tried doing this p->shi502_netname, but all i get is the first letter of the string

Kelvin Chikomo

Owner drawn19-Jan-06 1:43

19-Jan-06 1:43

I also declared a struct and put a member inside with the same name and it's still working.

struct 
{
	LPTSTR  shi502_netname;
}p;

p.shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p.shi502_netname ;	
TCHAR* var = h;
cout<<var<<endl;

Here is the code. It's working. Sniff | :^)

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 1:46

19-Jan-06 1:46

I have edited the struct, its not a normal struct (typedef)

typedef struct
{
LPTSTR shi502_netname;
}p;

p.shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p.shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;cout<

Owner drawn19-Jan-06 1:50

19-Jan-06 1:50

typedef struct 
{
	LPTSTR  shi502_netname;
}p;

Did you declare a variable of type p.

p p1; //don't forget this
p1.shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p1.shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;
cout<<var<<endl;

It still works fine.

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 1:55

19-Jan-06 1:55

Yes i do. you did not declare yours as *p look at my definition of my struct below

typedef struct
{
LPTSTR shi502_netname;
}*p;

p p1; //don't forget thisp1.shi502_netname = _T("test");LPTSTR h = p1.shi502_netname ;TCHAR* var = h;cout<

Owner drawn19-Jan-06 2:01

19-Jan-06 2:01

Aha here is the problem...

typedef struct 
{
	LPTSTR  shi502_netname;
} ap,*p;

ap a;
p p1 = &a;
p1->shi502_netname = _T("test");
LPTSTR h = p1->shi502_netname ;
TCHAR* var = h;
cout<<var<<endl;

It works with the modifications that I made. You have to make another typedef along with *p i.e ap. If you don't what are you going to assign to a variable of type p. p needs an address of a struct of it's own type.

An advice: Please provide some meaningful names for variables and specially typedefs.

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 2:11

19-Jan-06 2:11

I tried it it did not work

the struct that iam using is part of the C++ libraries

here it is
typedef struct _SHARE_INFO_502 {
LPTSTR shi502_netname;
DWORD shi502_type;
LPTSTR shi502_remark;
DWORD shi502_permissions;
DWORD shi502_max_uses;
DWORD shi502_current_uses;
LPTSTR shi502_path;
LPTSTR shi502_passwd;
DWORD shi502_reserved;
PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR shi502_security_descriptor;
} SHARE_INFO_502, *PSHARE_INFO_502, *LPSHARE_INFO_502;

And i have to use *PSHARE_INFO_502 as the name of the struct

Kelvin Chikomo

Owner drawn19-Jan-06 2:18

19-Jan-06 2:18

Go ahead it will work.

PSHARE_INFO_502 should take the address of a valid structure of the same type. Then it has to work.

Probably like this:

SHARE_INFO_502 shInfo;
PSHARE_INFO_502 pShInfo = &shInfo;

Now use pShInfo as you should.

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 2:27

19-Jan-06 2:27

I get wrong out puts if i try this.

let me just give you part of my code

 PSHARE_INFO_502 BufPtr,p;<br />
   //SHARE_INFO_502 shInfo;<br />
   //PSHARE_INFO_502 pShInfo = &shInfo;<br />
   NET_API_STATUS res;<br />
   LPTSTR   lpszServer = NULL;<br />
   DWORD er=0,tr=0,resume=0, i;<br />
<br />
   //declare server variable<br />
   lpszServer = lpszArgv[1];<br />
   cout<<lpszServer<<endl;<br />
<br />
   /*----------------------------------------------------<br />
      Call the NetShareEnum function; specify level 502.<br />
     ----------------------------------------------------*/<br />
<br />
   do // begin do<br />
   {<br />
      res = NetShareEnum (lpszServer, 502, (LPBYTE *) &BufPtr, -1, &er, &tr, &resume);<br />
     <br />
      // If the call succeeds,<br />
     <br />
      if(res == ERROR_SUCCESS || res == ERROR_MORE_DATA)<br />
      {<br />
         p=BufPtr;<br />
         <br />
         // Loop through the entries;<br />
         //  print retrieved data.<br />
        <br />
         for(i=1;i<=er;i++)<br />
         {<br />
			   TCHAR* strPath =p->shi502_netname;<br />
<br />
			   cout<<strPath<<endl;<br />
			   // Declare new CACLInfo object<br />
			   // and initialize it with supplied path<br />
			   CACLInfo objAclInfo(strPath);<br />
   <br />
			   // query ACL info from NTFS<br />
			   objAclInfo.Query();<br />
<br />
               p++;<br />
         }<br />
         //<br />
         // Free the allocated buffer.<br />
         //<br />
         NetApiBufferFree(BufPtr);<br />
<br />
      }<br />
      else <br />
         printf("Error: %ld\n",res);<br />
   }<br />
   // Continue to call NetShareEnum while <br />
   //  there are more entries. <br />
   // <br />
   while (res==ERROR_MORE_DATA); // end do

Prakash Nadar19-Jan-06 5:00

Prakash Nadar

19-Jan-06 5:00

as i can see from here, your real problem is probably not cout<<strPath<<endl;. I guess that cout statement is a debug output statement.

if you want to fix that part, you have to use wcout and it will print properly.

Is there any other problem in your code beside printing?

-Prakash

kakan19-Jan-06 2:21

kakan

19-Jan-06 2:21

This maybe is a stupid question but I have to ask:
Are your program using UNICODE?
In that case, it's perfectly understandable:
The console doesn't want UNICODE, so when your 't' is written to the consol, the console sees a 't', followed by a \0.
And since \0 is a string terminator, the output is terminated.
Could this be the case here?

kelprinc19-Jan-06 2:24

19-Jan-06 2:24

Yes i am programing in unicode.
So what shld i do

Kelvin Chikomo

kakan19-Jan-06 2:28

kakan

19-Jan-06 2:28

Make sure your console output is in plain ANSI

kelprinc19-Jan-06 2:30

19-Jan-06 2:30

I am not printing any thing to the console as yet.

You can look at the above threads to see my code.

Kelvin Chikomo

David Crow19-Jan-06 2:56

David Crow

19-Jan-06 2:56

kelprinc wrote:

I am not printing any thing to the console as yet.

Sure you are. What do you think cout is for?

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kelprinc19-Jan-06 3:20

19-Jan-06 3:20

I am now trying to use the W2A conversion but im realy doubting it

Kelvin Chikomo

David Crow19-Jan-06 3:23

David Crow

19-Jan-06 3:23

You need to use wcout instead of cout.

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