L‌ong P‌ointer to a C‌onst T‌CHAR STR‌ing

Quoting Brian Kramer on the MSDN forums: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/vstudio/en-US/1b994ff3-da28-46a8-90ef-6c7fab8dcd21/lpctstr#e4e05bbe-7cb8-4321-97de-fcf1c435952e


LPCTSTR = L‌ong P‌ointer to a C‌onst T‌CHAR STR‌ing (Don't worry, a long pointer is the same as a pointer. There were two flavors of pointers under 16-bit windows.)

Here's the table:

LPSTR = char*
LPCSTR = const char*
LPWSTR = wchar_t*
LPCWSTR = const wchar_t*
LPTSTR = char* or wchar_t* depending on _UNICODE
LPCTSTR =  const char* or const wchar_t* depending on _UNICODE