converting lpwstr to const char

Asked Jul 03 '13 at 05:55

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I have made use of function gethostbyname function to get the host information.The function expects a const char * string but i have a string of type LPWSTR and hence i'm getting the error as

 error C2664: 'gethostbyname' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'LPWSTR' to 'const char *'

i tried performing a type cast from LPWSTR to const char * as below but the compiler errors seem to go but its not giving the intended result .

  host = gethostbyname((const char *)resource.lpRemoteName);

i followed up google and made use of Cstring as below for the same but the the function seems to fail.Please let me know the conversion .

    CString strFullName =resource.lpRemoteName;
    host = gethostbyname(strFullName);

asked Jul 03 '13 at 05:55

Santhosh Pai

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You can do `CStringA strFullName(resource.lpRemoteName)`. – Roger Rowland Jul 03 '13 at 06:06
@RomanR : i know the question has been repeated quite a while in the forum and i did try the solutions on internet but they didnt seem to serve the purpose. – Santhosh Pai Jul 03 '13 at 06:17
Thanks @RogerRowland that seems to have worked. – Santhosh Pai Jul 03 '13 at 07:14

converting lpwstr to const char

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