How do you convert FString into Char* ? UE4 - game-engine

const char* bufmessage = PlayerLocation;
int sendOK = sendto(out, bufmessage, strlen(bufmessage), 0, (sockaddr*)&server, sizeof(server));
no suitable conversion for FString to const char*


A 1 line solution to convert from some FString to char* would be this:
// Assuming you have some FString myFString created e.g., with TEXT("Some FString")
char* result = TCHAR_TO_ANSI(*myFString);
Note: As the comments point out, this assumes the FString will not go out of scope.

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Managed c++ to clr __pin to pin_ptr or interior_ptr

I am trying to compile a project that was previous using /oldsyntax, but now with /clr.
std::string Jhc::Interop::stlString(System::String^ s)
{
std::string out;
const wchar_t __pin * str = PtrToStringChars(s);
int len = s->Length*4;
char *buf = new char[len];
memset(buf,len,0);
I have changed System::String *s to System::String^ s, but how do I covert the line with PtrToStringChars(s);?
I have tried using pin_ptr and interior_ptr, but cannot make it work.

How do I convert array<unsigned char> to an unsigned char[]?

In a CLR project I have the output of AesManaged class as a 16 byte array
array<unsigned char>^ result = msEncrypt->ToArray();
However I need to convert this to an array of type unsigned char defined like this
unsigned char buff[16];
EDIT: I did try this but its giving error (no method signature with those parameters, although there is one)
System::Runtime::InteropServices::Marshal::Copy(result, 0, buff, 16);
And this one
buff = reinterpret_cast<unsigned char>(&result);
But the error is Expression must be a modifiable lvalue

According to this MSDN documentation I used this and it appears to work
pin_ptr<unsigned char>buff = &result[0];

How can I transfer data from unsigned char * to char * safely?

I am willing to transfer data from unsigned char hash[512 + 1] to char res[512 + 1] safely.
My C hashing library MHASH returns a result so it can be printed as listed below.
for (int i = 0; i < size /*hash block size*/; i++)
printf("%.2x", hash[i]); // which is unsigned char - it prints normal hash characters in range [a-z,0-9]
printf("\n");
I am willing to do something like that (see below).
const char* res = (const char *)hash; // "hash" to "res"
printf("%s\n", res); // print "res" (which is const char*) - if i do this, unknown characters are printed
I know the difference between char and unsigned char, but I don't know how to transfer data. Any answer would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. But please do not recommend me C++ (STD) code, I am working on a project that is not STD-linked.

Given that the contents of the unsigned char array are printable characters, you can always safely convert it to char. Either a hardcopy with memcpy or a pointer reference as in the code you have already written.
I'm guessing that the actual problem here is that the unsigned char array contents are not actually printable characters, but integers in some format. You'll have to convert them from integer to ASCII letters. How to do this depends on the format of the data, which isn't clear in your question.

Assuming the following:
#define ARR_SIZE (512 + 1)
unsigned char hash[ARR_SIZE];
char res[ARR_SIZE];
/* filling up hash here. */
Just do:
#include <string.h>
...
memcpy(res, hash, ARR_SIZE);

Well, thank you guys for your answers, but unfortunately nothing worked yet. I am now sticking with the code below.
char res[(sizeof(hash) * 2) + 1] = { '\0' };
char * pPtr = res;
for (int i = 0; i < hashBlockSize; i++)
sprintf(pPtr + (i * 2), "%.2x", hash[i]);
return (const char *)pPtr;
Until there is any other much more performant way to get this done. It's right, my question is strongly related to MHASH Library.

c and objective-c -- const char* and char*

I have a function:
-(void)ADPCMDecode:(char *)indata : (short *)outdata :(long)len {
indata is a char and the function does pointer arithmetic to iterate for a length of len, modifying outdata, which is a short and I will need to do pointer arithmetic to get the values from it.
I am attempting to call the function using:
const char *modulatedBytes1 = [modulatedAudio bytes];
char *modulatedBytes [] = modulatedBytes1;
unsigned int moduleatedLength = [modulatedAudio length];
short *decompressedBytes = NULL;
[self ADPCMDecode:modulatedBytes :decompressedBytes :moduleatedLength];
DLog(#"%hi",decompressedBytes[1]);
I get a BAD ACCESS error on this line: *outp++ = valprev; within the function, because I am passing a constant char * instead of a char *
How should I call the function, and how would I get the output from it?
I have no background in C, which is why I do not understand how to go about doing this.
Here is the C only version of the same question:
https://pastee.org/d3y3z

How to do CRC32 hashing on a string in objective C

as per title, i couldnt find another tutorial on this...
i found a piece of code here: http://classroomm.com/objective-c/index.php?action=printpage;topic=2891.0
but it is giving me alot of warnings and doesnt really know how to use it.
Any other solution?

You might want to check this out - http://code.google.com/p/ofc/wiki/DCRC32

Just use crc32() function, it's simple and straight forward. See this answer for details: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14533955/1760595

I modified http://www.csbruce.com/software/crc32.c slightly,
and used UTF8String method to get a pointer to the internal CString representation of NSString.
This saves copying.
Unfotunately zlib's crc32 implementation needs a buffer length.
This one just terminates with the 0 byte at the end of the C-String.
#implementation NSString (crc32)
static unsigned long Crc32_String(const char *string)
{
static const unsigned long crcTable[256] = {
0x00000000,0x77073096,0xEE0E612C,0x990951BA,0x076DC419,0x706AF48F,0xE963A535,
0x9E6495A3,0x0EDB8832,0x79DCB8A4,0xE0D5E91E,0x97D2D988,0x09B64C2B,0x7EB17CBD,
0xE7B82D07,0x90BF1D91,0x1DB71064,0x6AB020F2,0xF3B97148,0x84BE41DE,0x1ADAD47D,
0x6DDDE4EB,0xF4D4B551,0x83D385C7,0x136C9856,0x646BA8C0,0xFD62F97A,0x8A65C9EC,
0x14015C4F,0x63066CD9,0xFA0F3D63,0x8D080DF5,0x3B6E20C8,0x4C69105E,0xD56041E4,
0xA2677172,0x3C03E4D1,0x4B04D447,0xD20D85FD,0xA50AB56B,0x35B5A8FA,0x42B2986C,
0xDBBBC9D6,0xACBCF940,0x32D86CE3,0x45DF5C75,0xDCD60DCF,0xABD13D59,0x26D930AC,
0x51DE003A,0xC8D75180,0xBFD06116,0x21B4F4B5,0x56B3C423,0xCFBA9599,0xB8BDA50F,
0x2802B89E,0x5F058808,0xC60CD9B2,0xB10BE924,0x2F6F7C87,0x58684C11,0xC1611DAB,
0xB6662D3D,0x76DC4190,0x01DB7106,0x98D220BC,0xEFD5102A,0x71B18589,0x06B6B51F,
0x9FBFE4A5,0xE8B8D433,0x7807C9A2,0x0F00F934,0x9609A88E,0xE10E9818,0x7F6A0DBB,
0x086D3D2D,0x91646C97,0xE6635C01,0x6B6B51F4,0x1C6C6162,0x856530D8,0xF262004E,
0x6C0695ED,0x1B01A57B,0x8208F4C1,0xF50FC457,0x65B0D9C6,0x12B7E950,0x8BBEB8EA,
0xFCB9887C,0x62DD1DDF,0x15DA2D49,0x8CD37CF3,0xFBD44C65,0x4DB26158,0x3AB551CE,
0xA3BC0074,0xD4BB30E2,0x4ADFA541,0x3DD895D7,0xA4D1C46D,0xD3D6F4FB,0x4369E96A,
0x346ED9FC,0xAD678846,0xDA60B8D0,0x44042D73,0x33031DE5,0xAA0A4C5F,0xDD0D7CC9,
0x5005713C,0x270241AA,0xBE0B1010,0xC90C2086,0x5768B525,0x206F85B3,0xB966D409,
0xCE61E49F,0x5EDEF90E,0x29D9C998,0xB0D09822,0xC7D7A8B4,0x59B33D17,0x2EB40D81,
0xB7BD5C3B,0xC0BA6CAD,0xEDB88320,0x9ABFB3B6,0x03B6E20C,0x74B1D29A,0xEAD54739,
0x9DD277AF,0x04DB2615,0x73DC1683,0xE3630B12,0x94643B84,0x0D6D6A3E,0x7A6A5AA8,
0xE40ECF0B,0x9309FF9D,0x0A00AE27,0x7D079EB1,0xF00F9344,0x8708A3D2,0x1E01F268,
0x6906C2FE,0xF762575D,0x806567CB,0x196C3671,0x6E6B06E7,0xFED41B76,0x89D32BE0,
0x10DA7A5A,0x67DD4ACC,0xF9B9DF6F,0x8EBEEFF9,0x17B7BE43,0x60B08ED5,0xD6D6A3E8,
0xA1D1937E,0x38D8C2C4,0x4FDFF252,0xD1BB67F1,0xA6BC5767,0x3FB506DD,0x48B2364B,
0xD80D2BDA,0xAF0A1B4C,0x36034AF6,0x41047A60,0xDF60EFC3,0xA867DF55,0x316E8EEF,
0x4669BE79,0xCB61B38C,0xBC66831A,0x256FD2A0,0x5268E236,0xCC0C7795,0xBB0B4703,
0x220216B9,0x5505262F,0xC5BA3BBE,0xB2BD0B28,0x2BB45A92,0x5CB36A04,0xC2D7FFA7,
0xB5D0CF31,0x2CD99E8B,0x5BDEAE1D,0x9B64C2B0,0xEC63F226,0x756AA39C,0x026D930A,
0x9C0906A9,0xEB0E363F,0x72076785,0x05005713,0x95BF4A82,0xE2B87A14,0x7BB12BAE,
0x0CB61B38,0x92D28E9B,0xE5D5BE0D,0x7CDCEFB7,0x0BDBDF21,0x86D3D2D4,0xF1D4E242,
0x68DDB3F8,0x1FDA836E,0x81BE16CD,0xF6B9265B,0x6FB077E1,0x18B74777,0x88085AE6,
0xFF0F6A70,0x66063BCA,0x11010B5C,0x8F659EFF,0xF862AE69,0x616BFFD3,0x166CCF45,
0xA00AE278,0xD70DD2EE,0x4E048354,0x3903B3C2,0xA7672661,0xD06016F7,0x4969474D,
0x3E6E77DB,0xAED16A4A,0xD9D65ADC,0x40DF0B66,0x37D83BF0,0xA9BCAE53,0xDEBB9EC5,
0x47B2CF7F,0x30B5FFE9,0xBDBDF21C,0xCABAC28A,0x53B39330,0x24B4A3A6,0xBAD03605,
0xCDD70693,0x54DE5729,0x23D967BF,0xB3667A2E,0xC4614AB8,0x5D681B02,0x2A6F2B94,
0xB40BBE37,0xC30C8EA1,0x5A05DF1B,0x2D02EF8D };
unsigned long crc32;
unsigned char *byteBuf;
size_t i;
char byte;
/** accumulate crc32 for buffer **/
crc32 = 0;
byteBuf = (unsigned char *) string;
i = 0;
while ((byte = byteBuf[i++])) {
crc32 = (crc32 >> 8) ^ crcTable[ (crc32 ^ byte) & 0xFF ];
}
return( crc32 ^ 0xFFFFFFFF );
}
- (unsigned long)crc32
{
return Crc32_String(0, [self UTF8String]);
}
#end