http://notrocketsurgery.com/articles_controller.rb/tag?tag=gross en-us 40 Relax. <p>Using programming languages such as Ruby and Python (<a href="http://www.journalhome.com/codecraft/9003" title="freedom languages">freedom languages?</a>) in order to gain an advantage over over those stuck in the <a href="http://java.sun.com/" title="Java">past</a> is sometimes an everyday choice. Here's a list to remind you of why you chose as you did.</p><ul> <li>"I'm so sad"</li> <li>L"I'm so sad"</li> <li>W"I'm so sad"</li> <li>OLESTR("I'm so sad")</li> <li>SysAllocString(L"I'm so sad")</li> <li>_T("I'm so sad")</li> <li>_TEXT("I'm so sad")</li> <li>BSTR</li> <li>CAtlString</li> <li>CAtlStringA</li> <li>CAtlStringW</li> <li>CComBSTR</li> <li>CSimpleStringT</li> <li>CString</li> <li>CStringA</li> <li>CStringT</li> <li>CStringW</li> <li>DBTYPE_BSTR</li> <li>DBTYPE_STR</li> <li>DBTYPE_WSTR</li> <li>LPCSTR</li> <li>LPCTSTR</li> <li>LPCWSTR</li> <li>LPOLESTR</li> <li>LPSTR</li> <li>LPTSTR</li> <li>LPWSTR</li> <li>OLECHAR</li> <li>System::String</li> <li>TCHAR</li> <li>_bstr_t</li> <li>basic_string&lt;char&gt;</li> <li>basic_string&lt;wchar_t&gt;</li> <li>char *</li> <li>std::string</li> <li>std::wstring</li> <li>wchar_t *</li> </ul> <p>These all essentially mean "string" in C++. This list is by no means comprehensive.</p> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:02:09 -0400 urn:uuid:8c450eb5-ed4d-4d91-abc7-7d4bb15cbf86 kit http://notrocketsurgery.com/articles/2006/08/13/strings-in-c programming C gross