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From: Vincent Fatica on 24 May 2010 21:34
On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:59:53 -0400, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik(a)mvps.org>
wrote:

|Vincent Fatica <vince(a)blackholespam.net> wrote:
|> error C2664: 'error' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'LPCWSTR' to
|> 'LPTSTR' Conversion loses qualifiers
|>
|> Why? Aren't "LPCWSTR" and "const LPWSTR" both "const WCHAR*"?
|
|No. LPCWSTR is "const WCHAR*" - a non-const pointer to const data. "const LPWSTR" is "WCHAR* const" - a const pointer to non-const data. Your function, by taking LPTSTR, declares that it may modify pointed-to data - that's why it can't accept LPCWSTR (where, again, the data is const).

I get it. Thanks to both of you, Igor and Doug.
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- Vince
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