Sorting strings in MFC vs. C#

Question

I have a legacy app that uses both C# and native C++ (MFC). I need to sort strings on both sides so that they are in the same order. The problem is that on the .NET side using string.Compare it comes out in a "culture-specific" way so that, for instance, "A_B" sorts before "A11" whereas in MFC, using operator < , "A11" sorts before "A_B".

I know I can change the .NET side to use Ordinal sorting, but that could break some foreign language sorting. What I want is to change the MFC sorting so that it sorts in a "culture-specific" manner, like the .NET side. I found CompareStringEx in the Win32 API, but am wondering if there is an MFC solution to this or something else I am missing.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

MFC's CString class has Collate and CollateNoCase for locale-specific comparisons. I haven't tested them to assure they match .NETs collation order, but I'd expect that both use the same Win32 function(s), in which case they'd obviously match.