Conversion between wchar_t* to string

Question

I was trying to create a client in c++ for a web service using a Service Model Metadata Utility Tool, I have established the communication between the two endpoints, but at the client side I receive a wchar_t*, how can i convert it to a string?

Note: the server side is using encoding of UTF-8.

Possible duplicate of [How do I convert wchar\_t\* to std::string?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4339960/how-do-i-convert-wchar-t-to-stdstring) — JHBonarius, Apr 05 '18 at 12:05

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '14 at 19:24

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Use this simple function:

std::string wchar2string(wchar_t* str)
{
    std::string mystring;
    while( *str )
      mystring += (char)*str++;
    return  mystring;
}

I hope that this function can help you!

answered Dec 16 '14 at 19:24

AngeloDM

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '14 at 19:11

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You can use std::wstring which has a constructor that takes wchar_t*.

answered Dec 16 '14 at 19:11

bialpio

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Conversion between wchar_t* to string

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