pmsumner

And my head hurts.

Admittedly I spent a lot of that browsing the MSDN site looking for info on what half the classes and inbuilt functions did, but boy it's not simple. Stuff that you're doing in 3 lines in Perl takes 10 in C++. Simple stuff like splitting a chunk of text into seperate lines. In Perl:

  @lines = split /[\n\r]/, $retval;  
  # Take $retval and split it at each line break, putting result into array

In C++

while ((newloc = response.Find((TCHAR) '\n', loc)) != -1)  {  
  // Traverse "response" and look for a newline symbol

  CString frag = response.Mid(loc, newloc-loc);  
  // Copy the string between the start and the end points into "fragment"

  loc = newloc+1;
  // Increase position by one
}

One line to three, and that's a simple example. Networking code is just foul. Even using the CInternetSession:: classes, it's nowhere near as easy as Perl and it's HTTP:: / LWP:: libraries. Might be more powerful when used properly, but still... I think I need a reference book!