I'm really confused now, what is with this unicode stuff.

Okay, from what I understand, the problem with the first code is that I was actually passing pointer locations so was getting numbers as the result, which obviously weren't valid file names.

The problem I am now getting is how to correctly get from

char

or

std::string

to

TCHAR

or

LPCTSTR

Since technically LPCTSTR is just a TCHAR pointer, I think, I just don't understand how it works. I tried converting char[] to TCHAR[] with the following code:

	TCHAR* ConvertTCHAR(char Char[])
		{
			USES_CONVERSION;
			TCHAR* b = A2T(Char);
			return b;

		}

But I don't think that this is that clean.

Anyway, according to the website that I mentioned in my previous post:

#define  LPCTSTR        const TCHAR* 

Since that is what I want, shouldn't this function be returning, essentially, what I want?

If so where is my confusion with pointers, because somewhere else said that std::string was a char[]*

ahhhh... so confused.

Anyway be, below is the code I have tried and failed to use.

	char* CombineChar(char* Char1, char* Char2)
	{
		char* mHeader = Char1;
		// retrieve incoming string and assign to variable
		char* msgHeader = new char[strlen(Char2)+1];
		memcpy(msgHeader,Char2,strlen(Char2)+1);
		msgHeader[strlen( Char2 )] = '\0';

		char* retVal = new char[strlen(mHeader)+strlen(msgHeader)+1];
		*retVal = '\0';
		
		// Assemble the string
		strcat(retVal,mHeader);
		strcat(retVal,msgHeader);

		return retVal;
	}

		TCHAR* ConvertTCHAR(char Char[])
		{
			USES_CONVERSION;
			TCHAR* b = A2T(Char);
			return b;

		}

	void AllDrives_Test(char SPath[])
	{
					char Letters[25] = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','y','z'};
					int i;
			
	
			for(i= 0; i < 25; i++){
				
				string* PP = Letters[i] + SPath;
				ConvertTCHAR(PP);
				LPCTSTR Iglo = (TCHAR*)PP.c_str();
				char Ni[] = Letters[i];
				char Path = CombineChar(Ni ,SPath);
				LPCTSTR PathI = (PP);
				cout << PathI;


			/*


				cout << "\n Attempting Path: ";
				cout << FullPath;
					CString _Path=_T("f");
					 LPCTSTR Path = _Path;
					
					 if (_access (FPath, 0) != 0) {
						 cout << "F1";
						 break;
			}
					 cout << "F2";
					 // File Exists and we are able to modify.
					 (CopyFile(FullPath,FullPath + OldTag,false)); // Rename from file.xxx to file.xxx.old
					 CFile::Remove(FullPath); // Delete old path.
					 (CopyFile(InPath,FullPath,false)); // Copy from local to remote drive.
					 //done
					 */
				break;
			}

(Note: I switched to a multibyte build to see if it would make a difference. It didn't.)

Apon reflection this is in the wrong place. It should be in the C/C++ forum, its not .net. Whoops. Sorry. Could this be moved?

I am getting closer to understanding. For all those in the same situation, the issue relies on my understanding of LPCTSTR, and what it is. There is a useful article here that could help you understand. Will post a solution when I can.