C++: Converting wstring to unsigned char

Question

I tried to convert a wstring to unsigned char. I tried _wtoc, but this does not exists.

Is there a conversion in the _wto style?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Well, I am doing it like this now:

wstring sThis=L"12";

unsigned int i;
i=_wtoi(sThis.c_str());

unsigned char c=(unsigned char)i;

Answer 2

I do it like this

wstring wsWideString
UINT uSize = wsWideString.length();
unsigned char * ptrUChar = new unsigned char[uSize+1];
memset(ptrUChar ,'\0',uSize+1);
for(UINT i=0;i<uSize;i++)
{
ptrUChar [i] = wsWideString[i];
}

//when finished
delete [] ptrUChar ;
ptrUChar  = NULL;