How to convert std::wstring to a TCHAR*?

Question

How to convert a std::wstring to a TCHAR*? std::wstring.c_str() does not work since it returns a wchar_t*.

How do I get from wchar_t* to TCHAR*, or from std::wstring to TCHAR*?

Answer 1

use this :

wstring str1(L"Hello world");
TCHAR * v1 = (wchar_t *)str1.c_str();

Answer 2

#include <atlconv.h>

TCHAR *dst = W2T(src.c_str());

Will do the right thing in ANSI or Unicode builds.