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CString replace chars with newline
Hello all,
I have what seems to me to be a very simple task, but one that is giving me fits. I have a CString variable, with which I want to use the Replace method to replace a set of one or more characters with a newline character. What I first tried was this:
CString str;
CString OldChars("Something");
str.Replace(OldChars, '\r\n');
Needless to say this did not work. Can someone tell me how to do this?
Thanks.
I have what seems to me to be a very simple task, but one that is giving me fits. I have a CString variable, with which I want to use the Replace method to replace a set of one or more characters with a newline character. What I first tried was this:
CString str;
CString OldChars("Something");
str.Replace(OldChars, '\r\n');
Needless to say this did not work. Can someone tell me how to do this?
Thanks.
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All you had to do to fix your code was to change your single quote to double quotes.
Example:
CString str = "Hello\nWorld\nMy name is\nAxter\n";
CString OldChars("\n");
str.Replace(OldChars, "\r\n");
Example:
CString str = "Hello\nWorld\nMy name is\nAxter\n";
CString OldChars("\n");
str.Replace(OldChars, "\r\n");
CString has to Replace() functions.
One works with single char and the other works with strings.
int Replace( TCHAR chOld, TCHAR chNew );
int Replace( LPCTSTR lpszOld, LPCTSTR lpszNew );
The reason your code did not work is because you were mixing a single char with a string.
'\r\n'
Even though you have more then one charactor inside the single quotes, the compiler will still compile this to a single character, and ignore the remaining charactors after the first one.
You could have also compiled your code using the following syntax:
str.Replace(CString('\n'),
You would use the above code if you had a single charactor varaiable type that needed to be replace by a string (multiple chars).
One works with single char and the other works with strings.
int Replace( TCHAR chOld, TCHAR chNew );
int Replace( LPCTSTR lpszOld, LPCTSTR lpszNew );
The reason your code did not work is because you were mixing a single char with a string.
'\r\n'
Even though you have more then one charactor inside the single quotes, the compiler will still compile this to a single character, and ignore the remaining charactors after the first one.
You could have also compiled your code using the following syntax:
str.Replace(CString('\n'),
You would use the above code if you had a single charactor varaiable type that needed to be replace by a string (multiple chars).
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