TCHAR Strings and concatonation issues

[TheBoyMonkey]

I'm trying to retrieve a few lines of text from a file (ASCII) and then concatonate them into a TCHAR variable.

The entire lines of text amount to around 170 characters in length and the TCHAR receiving each file line is is set to _TCHAR fileLine[4000].

I'm simply using the instruction:

_tcscat(*completeString, fileLine);

to concatonate.

The problem is that the line concatonations stop after around 150 characters for no real reason that I can see (and halfway through a fileLine), even thought the _TCHAR fileLine variable continues to hold the whole of the next string in sequence correctly.

If I use strcat and char variables, the completeString is built correctly, but the same problem occurs if I try to convert to TCHAR (in the same place of the string).

Any ideas?

Thanks for any time,
Tom.

 

[woja]

What complie options are you using ([tt]_MBCS[/tt], [tt]_UNICODE[/tt], etc.) for character set encoding?

If you're compiling with [tt]_UNICODE[/tt], then just reading ASCII (8-bit characters) into the [tt]TCHAR[/tt] variable doesn't convert ASCII to UNICODE, and it will treat every pair of ASCII characters as a single UNICODE character. The fact that [tt]strcat[/tt] works in your program seems to suggest that this is the case.

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Roger
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[Zyrenthian]

If you are using _UNICODE you will want to

#include <atlconv.h>

...
USES_CONVERSION
_tcscat(*completString,A2T(fileLine));

also, memset completeString to zero just incase the null terminator does not come along. I always do this because I read somewhere that some str functions do not bring this along.

Matt