CString semi-colon issue

Hi,

I appereciate there could be a number of problems with this but thought I would check first, as I had a problem with DrawText and ampersand. I have a list control in a dialog box to which users are allowed to put a URL. This URL is of course stored as a CString in the background and all further manipulations (if necessary) of it, would deal with it being of type CString. The issue comes when a users inputs a semi-colon in the URL. The example I can give is the following made-up URL

http://1.1.1.1/module=Article;action

would change to

htpp://1.1.1.1/module=Article action

I realise there may be a number of reasons why, but just wanted to check this wasnt a setting and/or bug, as my ampersand issue turned out to be not using DT_NOPREFIX in the method call, a reasonable easy fix, is it anything like this

Thanks

Will

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CString semi-colon issue

mymsdndoc

Hi Will:

Putting a semi-colon in a CString should not be a problem, and in fact I find that I can do exactly that in an MFC dialog-based app when using the UpdataData mechanism to store the contents of what the user typed in a CEdit control into a CString variable.

Perhaps a code sample showing the problem you are encountering
pine_ant
No, thats great rick,

I just wanted to check that it wasnt anything simple like that. I admit it was a real long shot, and likely not make sense, but since when were computers logical!

Thanks again

Will
CString semi-colon issue

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