What is the function of STR and LPSTR? - Windows Programming

What is the function of STR and LPSTR?

- STR is a data type that has the storage allocation in place and it consists of the strings that are treated as an array.

- They use simple character pointer to point to the objects.

- The variable that is used with the data type is “sz” as it is a zero-terminated string i.e. a string that ends with a NULL character.

- LPSTR is also known as Long Pointer to STR (string) and it is given as:
#define STR * LPSTR;

- This can be used to point to the string objects and it can also explicitly define the ASCII code rather than Unicode.

- The variables are prefixed with “lpsz” and it consists of the long pointer to the string having zero-terminated.