Getting the length of a string from a resource.

[xanatose]

Is there a way to get the length of a string before getting the string. Basically I want to allocate a bufferjust the right size, before calling LoadString.

[oex]

"Since the resource strings are not null-terminated, the string length is stored in the word preceeding the start of the resource string"

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/30/65013.aspx

It has a c function retrieval example

[xanatose]

thank you , that's what I needed.