std::string to LPCTSTR

Question

New version of the typical question of how to convert from std::string to LPCTSTR.

Reading from different SO posts I learnt that I should do th

Answer 1

Use CreateDirectoryA instead. CreateDirectory is a macro that expands to either CreateDirectoryA or CreateDirectoryW depending on the build configuration; They take respectively LPCSTR and LPCWSTR. If you know you have a LPCSTR (which is what c_str() gives you), use the first one.