CString extension for directory names

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Profound programming rule learned the hard way: Never assume anything. So I got pretty tired of always checking a path in a CString to ensure that it
terminated in a backslash before adding any additional names. I wrote the
CDirectoryString class to handle this for me, and as I was writing an installation
program at the time, I added some macro’s for obtaining current context directory
names.

The macros:

The CDirectoryString class will always check your termination and append the
backslash if its missing. If you include one or more of the macros
it will translate them during assigment or concatenation.

Also included are four public member functions:

void GetWindowsDirectory();
void GetSystemDirectory();
void GetCurrentDirectory();
void GetDateDirectory();

Calling either of these functions will REPLACE the current string contents with
the content described by the function name.

Example:

CDirectoryString strTarget=”[systemdir]”;
printf(strTarget);

//output:
c:windowssystem

another example:

CDirectoryString strTarget=”c:\outbox\sessions[datedir]\incoming”;
printf(strTarget);

//output:
d:outboxsessions8061998incoming

last but not least:

CDirectoryString strTarget;
strTarget.GetCurrentDirectory();
printf(strTarget);

//output:
c:Program Files

If you have any changes, new macros or perhaps I missed something, please email me. The source code:

DirectoryString.h

class CDirectoryString : public CString
{
	public:
		CDirectoryString();
		CDirectoryString(const CString& stringSrc);
		CDirectoryString(LPCTSTR lpsz);
		CDirectoryString(LPCWSTR lpsz);
		virtual ~CDirectoryString();
		const CString& operator=(const CString& stringSrc);
		const CString& operator=(LPCTSTR lpsz);
		const CString& operator+=(LPCTSTR lpsz);
		const CString& operator+=(TCHAR ch);
		const CString& operator+=(const CString& string);
		void GetWindowsDirectory();
		void GetSystemDirectory();
		void GetCurrentDirectory();
		void GetDateDirectory();
		void Fixate();
		void ProcessMacros(const char* szSrc);
	protected:
		void ExpandMacro(char* pchMacroString);
		int GetMacroIndex(char* pchMacroString);
		void Concat(const char* pchString);
		void GetDateString(char* pchBuffer);
};

DirectoryString.cpp

CDirectoryString::CDirectoryString()
{
}

CDirectoryString::CDirectoryString(const CString& stringSrc)
{
ProcessMacros(stringSrc);
}

CDirectoryString::CDirectoryString(LPCTSTR lpsz)
{
ProcessMacros(lpsz);
}

CDirectoryString::CDirectoryString(LPCWSTR lpsz)
{
CString::CString(lpsz);
ProcessMacros(m_pchData);
}

CDirectoryString::~CDirectoryString()
{
}

const CString& CDirectoryString::operator=(const CString& stringSrc)
{
ProcessMacros(stringSrc);
return *this;
}

const CString& CDirectoryString::operator=(LPCTSTR lpsz)
{
ProcessMacros(lpsz);
return *this;
}

const CString& CDirectoryString::operator+=(LPCTSTR lpsz)
{
*(CString*)this+=(lpsz);
ProcessMacros(m_pchData);
return *this;
}

const CString& CDirectoryString::operator+=(TCHAR ch)
{
*(CString*)this+=(ch);
ProcessMacros(m_pchData);
return *this;
}

const CString& CDirectoryString::operator+=(const CString& string)
{
*(CString*)this+=(string);
ProcessMacros(m_pchData);
return *this;
}

void CDirectoryString::ProcessMacros(const char* szSrc)
{
if(!szSrc)
{
return;
}
int nOriginalLength=strlen(szSrc);

char* pchOriginal=new char[nOriginalLength+1];
strcpy(pchOriginal,szSrc);
Release();

char* pchAnchor=pchOriginal;
char* pchLead=strchr(pchOriginal,'[‘);
while(pchLead)
{
if(pchLead!=pchAnchor)
{
pchLead[0]=0;
Concat(pchAnchor);
pchLead[0]='[‘;
}
pchAnchor=pchLead;
//scan through to the end of macro
pchLead=strchr(pchLead,’]’);
if(pchLead)
{
pchLead[0]=0;
pchAnchor++;
ExpandMacro(pchAnchor);
pchLead[0]=’]’;
pchAnchor=pchLead;
pchAnchor++;
pchLead=strchr(pchLead,'[‘);
}
else
{
break;
}
}
if(strlen(pchAnchor))
{
Concat(pchAnchor);
}
delete[] pchOriginal;
Fixate();
}

void CDirectoryString::ExpandMacro(char* pchMacroString)
{
if(pchMacroString)
{
char szTemp[MAX_PATH];
switch(GetMacroIndex(pchMacroString))
{
case 0:
::GetWindowsDirectory(szTemp,MAX_PATH);
break;
case 1:
::GetSystemDirectory(szTemp,MAX_PATH);
break;
case 2:
::GetCurrentDirectory(MAX_PATH,szTemp);
break;
case 3:
GetDateString(szTemp);
break;
default:
//unknown macro, return
return;
}
if(szTemp[strlen(szTemp)-1]!=92)
{
strcat(szTemp,”\”);
}
Concat(szTemp);
}
}

void CDirectoryString::Concat(const char* pchString)
{
CStringData* pOldData = GetData();
ConcatCopy(GetData()->nDataLength, m_pchData, strlen(pchString),pchString);
ASSERT(pOldData != NULL);
CString::Release(pOldData);
}

void CDirectoryString::GetWindowsDirectory()
{
char szTemp[MAX_PATH];
::GetWindowsDirectory(szTemp,MAX_PATH);
*this=szTemp;
Fixate();
}

void CDirectoryString::GetSystemDirectory()
{
char szTemp[MAX_PATH];
::GetSystemDirectory(szTemp,MAX_PATH);
*this=szTemp;
Fixate();
}

void CDirectoryString::GetCurrentDirectory()
{
char szTemp[MAX_PATH];
::GetCurrentDirectory(MAX_PATH,szTemp);
*this=szTemp;
Fixate();
}

void CDirectoryString::GetDateDirectory()
{
char szTemp[MAX_PATH];
GetDateString(szTemp);
*this=szTemp;
Fixate();
}

void CDirectoryString::GetDateString(char* pchBuffer)
{
if(!pchBuffer)
{
return;
}
char szTemp[5];
SYSTEMTIME now;
GetLocalTime(&now);
sprintf(pchBuffer,”%02d”,now.wDay);
sprintf(szTemp,”%02d”,now.wMonth);
strcat(pchBuffer,szTemp);
sprintf(szTemp,”%04d”,now.wYear);
strcat(pchBuffer,szTemp);
}

void CDirectoryString::Fixate()
{
if(m_pchData[GetLength()-1]!=92)
{
*this+=”\”;
}
}

int CDirectoryString::GetMacroIndex(char* pchMacroString)
{
if(!pchMacroString)
{
return -1;
}
if(strcmp(pchMacroString,”windowsdir”)==0)
{
return 0;
}
if(strcmp(pchMacroString,”systemdir”)==0)
{
return 1;
}
if(strcmp(pchMacroString,”currentdir”)==0)
{
return 2;
}
if(strcmp(pchMacroString,”datedir”)==0)
{
return 3;
}
return -1;
}

Last updated: 8 July 1998