Using CString

The topics in this section describe programming using CString, which is the default implementation of the template class CStringT.

In This Section

• Basic CString Operations
  Describes basic CString operations, including creating objects from C literal strings, accessing individual characters in a CString, concatenating two objects, and comparing CString objects.

• String Data Management
  Discusses using Unicode and MBCS with CString.

• CString Semantics
  Explains how CString objects are used.

• CString Operations Relating to C-Style Strings
  Describes manipulating the contents of a CString object like a C-style null-terminated string.

• Allocating and Releasing Memory for a BSTR
  Discusses using memory for a BSTR and COM objects.

• CString Exception Cleanup
  Explains that explicit cleanup in MFC 3.0 and later is no longer necessary.

• CString Argument Passing
  Explains how to pass CString objects to functions and how to return CString objects from functions.

• Unicode and Multibyte Character Set (MBCS) Support
  Discusses how MFC is enabled for Unicode and MBCS support.

Reference

• CStringT Class.
  Provides reference information about the shared CStringT class.

See Also

Concepts

Strings (ATL/MFC)