Strings Topics

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Visual C++ supplies several ways to work with character-string data. These include MFC’s CString class, functions in the run-time library, and Win32 API functions.

This family of articles covers the CString class in MFC. For information about alternative ways to work with strings, see the overview.

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CString Fundamentals

• Class CString
  
  
• CString semantics
  
  
• CString and standard C strings
  
  
• CString operations: accessing characters, concatenating strings, comparing strings
  
  
• CString operations relating to C-style strings
  
  
• CString and the run-time library string functions

CString Operations

• Allocating CString objects
  
  
• Directly accessing the characters in a CString
  
  
• Directly modifying CString contents
  
  
• Converting a CString to a C-style null-terminated string
  
  
• Specifying CString formal parameters in my functions
  
  
• CString argument passing
  
  
• CString as a function output
  
  
• Using CString with variable argument functions

CString Support for Unicode and Multibyte Character Strings (MBCS)

• Unicode
  
  
• MBCS
  
  
• Unicode and multibyte character string support in CString
  
  
• The TCHAR data type and the _T macro

Advanced CString Topics

• The BSTR data type used in Automation
  
  
• CString reference counting for efficiency
  
  
• CString and exceptions