Iterate through resource string table

Question

I have a string table defined like this in my Win32 app:

STRINGTABLE
BEGIN
    IDS_STRING101           "myString1"
    IDS_STRING102           "myString2"
    IDS_STRING103           "myString3"
END

Since I want all of these strings to be part of an array, is it possible to iterate through this table? Since LoadStringA() requires the macros IDS_STRING101 etc., it seems impossible to iterate through it.

For a practical example, how would I programatically move these strings to an array of strings (char* array in C, std::string array in C++) without using the obvious way of writing a long repetitive code of LoadStringA() calls with the second parameter IDS_STRINGXXX? If possible, I want to be able to add more strings to this table in the future without modifying anything in the code.

Answer 1

There is no API to enumerate through the individual strings of a string table. You would have to load the entire string table resource as a whole into memory and then parse it manually per the documentation.

A simpler solution would be to just call LoadStringA() in a loop, since your string IDs are sequential, eg:

char myStrings[3][16] = {};
for (int idx = 0; idx < 3; ++idx) {
    LoadStringA(hInstance, IDS_STRING101 + idx, myStrings[idx], 16);
}