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How to assign a path of a file to a const WCHAR * or const FSSpec *?

I'm trying to assign the path of a file to either:

const WCHAR *ptr;
or
const FSSpec *optr;

(These are contained in a structure called FILEIN in the header file.)

This is my path I want one of these to point to:
c:\\myfile.txt"

Here is the method that I'm assigning the values in:

int WINAPI Openfile(const FILEIN *fin)

In this method how do I set either ptr or optr to point to the file path?

Thanks :)

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nicolac

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Here is the structure FILEIN:

STRUCTUREBEGIN(FILEIN) /*File Input info*/
#if !defined(MAC)
const WCHAR *ptr; // full path of file to open
#else
const FSSpec *optr; // file to open
#endif
.....
STRUCTUREEND

In the method

int WINAPI Openfile(const FILEIN *fin)

I want to set the value of either
const WCHAR *ptr;
or
const FSSpec *optr;

Does this explain it better?

You said: For example, if the structure has a member called "path" that is a char * pointer to the file path...
This is it: const WCHAR *ptr;

nietod

Then you would do

FILEIN FilDat;

FilDat.ptr = "C:\\MYFILE.DAT";
OpenFile(&FilDat);

except the string in this case is a wide-character string, so you need to isnure you assigning the pointer to a wide character string. If you are using a string literal (like above) you do that by placing a "L" (long) before the string like

FilDat.ptr = L"C:\\MYFILE.DAT";

if you are initializing the pointer to point to a buffer that stores the string (rather than a strign literal), then you need to make sure the buffer is declared a storign wide characters.

Does that help?

nicolac

ASKER

Great thats it, thanks :)