Accept string results in code commenting

Question

I have this snippet from MSDN page

lplpszAcceptTypes - A pointer to a null-terminated array of strings that indicates media types accepted by the client. Here is an example.

PCTSTR rgpszAcceptTypes[] = {_T(“text/*”), NULL};

The problem here is /* in “text/*” is read as comment by intellisense and the code which follows this line get commented out. What is the solution here?

Answer 1

The only reason IntelliSense parses this as a comment is that it isn't a proper string literal. C++ string literals are delimited by simple, straight quotes ", but the MSDN example, probably due to being edited in a word processor unsuited to technical content, uses stylized quotes “ and ”. These aren't recognized as quotes, so the string literals isn't recognized either, which leads IntelliSense astray. (And it should lead the compiler astray too, if MS has any respect whatsoever for portability.)

Answer 2

Consider this instead:

PCTSTR rgpszAcceptTypes[] = {_T(“text/” “*”), NULL};

The precompilation phase will concatenate the strings transparently and Intellisense will not be confused.

Alternately, you could use a macrodefinition ( I appologize :) ):

#define SPLIT_PATH "/"
PCTSTR rgpszAcceptTypes[] = {_T(“text” SPLIT_PATH “*”), NULL};

... or escaping the string (as @DoomProg suggested in a comment).