Thread: Variable Size and Inititation Help

Originally Posted by JessicaS

What is the right approach for initializingsuch kind of variables that their length is unknown?

If you use VC++, you can just use wmain() and be fine with properly tokenized command line. If you really need to use GetCommandLineW(), then you can pass the result to CommandLineToArgvW(). Unfortunately, there is no standard C++ way to get args in anything other than char*, so no matter what you do, you must use platform-specific stuff.

Originally Posted by JessicaS

Is there any solution that can let me assign on the fly like below:

Code:

wchar_t cmdString[] = (wchar_t *)GetCommandLine()

What is the right approach for initializing such kind of variables that their length is unknown?

As for this question, the answer is that yes, you can. You should simply use std::string/std::wstring:

std::string Arguments = GetCommandLineA();
or
std::wstring Arguments = GetCommandLineW();