Is there an string equivalent to LPTSTR?

Question

Is there an string equivalent to LPTSTR? I know of string and wstring. Is there a tstring?

Answer 1

You could define one:

typedef std::basic_string<TCHAR> mystring;
...
mystring test = _T("Hello World!");

Answer 2

Another option (doesn't require windows.h):

#if defined(_UNICODE) || defined(UNICODE)
  typedef std::wstring ustring_t;
  typedef wchar_t uchar_t;
  #define TEXT(x) (L##x)
#else
  typedef std::string ustring_t;
  typedef char uchar_t;
  #define TEXT(x) (x)
#endif

Usage:

ustring_t mystr = TEXT("hello world");