Re: Access violation when using IShellFolder2

[John Chapman via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 13:30:15 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
Thanks. I tried this, but VarDateFromStr does not succeed for 
me.

It turns out the shell embeds some control characters in the 
string, specifically 8206 and 8207. So remove those before 
passing it to VarDateFromStr.

auto temp = strRet.pOleStr[0 .. lstrlenW(strRet.pOleStr)]
  .replace(cast(wchar)8206, "")
  .replace(cast(wchar)8207, "");
DATE date;
VarDateFromStr((temp ~ '\0').ptr, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, 0, &date);