strstr on a wchar array

Hey all,

Im trying to write some code that checks if a certain process is running which uses the PROCESSENTRY32 structure. The variable szExeFile is returning a WCHAR (even though msdn says its a supposed to be a TCHAR). This is my code:

Code:

HANDLE hSnapShot=CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS,0);
	PROCESSENTRY32* processInfo=new PROCESSENTRY32;
	processInfo->dwSize=sizeof(PROCESSENTRY32W);
	while(Process32Next(hSnapShot,processInfo)!=FALSE)
	{		
	
		if((strstr(processInfo->szExeFile, "myprocess"))!=NULL)
		{		
			MessageBox(NULL, processInfo->szExeFile, _T("hi"), MB_OK);
			delete[] processInfo;
			CloseHandle(hSnapShot);			
			return true;
		}
	}	
	delete[] processInfo;
	CloseHandle(hSnapShot);
	return false;

I get an error when I compile saying

error C2665: 'strstr' : none of the 2 overloads could convert all the argument types
d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\string.h(163): could be 'const char *strstr(const char *,const char *)'
d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\string.h(187): or 'char *strstr(char *,const char *)'
while trying to match the argument list '(WCHAR [260], const char [8])'

I then change the strstr command to

Code:

if((strstr((char*)processInfo->szExeFile, "myprocess"))!=NULL)

it compiles fine but the strstr always returns NULL even though im 100% sure that the process myprocess is running. Therefore the (char*)processInfo-szExeFile must be returning junk values.

Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks

It seems you're compiling with UNICODE and _UNICODE defined (msvc2005 by any chance?) - strstr works on char arrays, not wchar_t(WCHAR) arrays; try wcsstr instead. And use the _T macro on all string literals.

However, since you're posting this on the c++ board, perhaps converting to a std::wstring would be more appropriate; you can then use the std::wstring::find member function to find the first occurrence of "myprocess" therein.

thanks for the reply

You are right about VS2005. The wcsstr worked perfectly. I know this is probably a dumb question but is there anyway to reconfigure VS2005 to work the same as VS6 so i dont have to keep using _T and wchar as i'm not used to it and its really slowing me down.

Thanks

Yes, but you should get used to using unicode sooner rather than later.

project menu --> project properties, configuration properties-general; change 'character set' to 'not set'

what is the advantage to using unicode then? Thanks

It's used by default on windows since win2000. If you use chars or their equivalent, the system has to translate them to unicode before it can do anything with them. More importantly, use of unicode permits you to represent every character in every written language.

For more information, here's google: unicode; lots of good reading there.