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Re: CFSTR and double-double quotes
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Re: CFSTR and double-double quotes


  • Subject: Re: CFSTR and double-double quotes
  • From: Greg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:59:13 -0400

It's just padding it with zero's.

"" = '\0'

Which is probably why passing a variable didn't work.  You can do this:

char *yum = "fee" "fi" "fo" "fum";

And the compiler will concatenate that into: "feefifofum", but you can't do this:

"asdf" somevar "poo"

Because the compiler doesn't know the value of somevar at compile time.

- Greg

On Jul 26, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Ivan Galic wrote:

Hi,

I've been writing a utility function for getting a path within the bundle from the filename. For that, I used the function CFBundleCopyResourceURL, which needs some CFStringRefs. I saw somewhere on the net an example like this:

CFSTR("somefile")

and it worked fine. However, when I put it inside a function which takes const char * parameters, it didn't:

void SomeFunction(const char *filename)
{
...
CFBundleCopyResourceURL(mainBundle, CFSTR(filename), ...);

}

I eventually solved the problem using CFStringCreateFromCString, but there's one thing I don't understand. I thought a string literal should be treated by the compiler just as const char*, but obviously it isn't. Further, I've found in the CoreFoundation headers the definition of CFSTR which uses a syntax I've never seen before:

#ifdef __CONSTANT_CFSTRINGS__
#define CFSTR(cStr) ((CFStringRef) __builtin___CFStringMakeConstantString ("" cStr ""))
#else
#define CFSTR(cStr) __CFStringMakeConstantString("" cStr "")
#endif



Can anyone explain what do the double-double quotes mean? Is it something Apple specific? I've never seen it before in a C program...


Thanks,
Ivan
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