ParseURLA function (shlwapi.h)

Performs rudimentary parsing of a URL.

Syntax

LWSTDAPI ParseURLA(
  [in]      LPCSTR     pcszURL,
  [in, out] PARSEDURLA *ppu
);

Parameters

[in] pcszURL

Type: LPCTSTR

A pointer to a null-terminated string containing the URL to be parsed.

[in, out] ppu

Type: PARSEDURL*

A pointer to a PARSEDURL structure that receives the parsed results. The calling application must set the structure's cbSize member to the size of the structure before calling ParseURL.

Return value

Type: HRESULT

Returns S_OK on success, or a COM error code otherwise. The function returns URL_E_INVALID_SYNTAX (defined in Intshcut.h) if the string could not be parsed as a URL.

Remarks

The parsing performed by ParseURL is fairly rudimentary. For more sophisticated URL parsing, use InternetCrackUrl.

Examples

This sample console application uses ParseURL to parse several simple URLs.

#include <windows.h>
#include <shlwapi.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>

void sample(LPCTSTR pcszUrl)
{
    PARSEDURL pu;
    pu.cbSize = sizeof(pu);
    HRESULT hr = ParseURL(pcszUrl, &pu);
    _tprintf(TEXT("ParseURL(%s) returned 0x%08x\n"), pcszUrl, hr);
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) {
        _tprintf(TEXT("Protocol = %.*s\n"), pu.cchProtocol, pu.pszProtocol);
        _tprintf(TEXT("Suffix   = %.*s\n"), pu.cchSuffix, pu.pszSuffix);
        _tprintf(TEXT("Scheme   = %d\n"), pu.nScheme);
        _tprintf(TEXT("\n"));
    }
}

int __cdecl main()
{
    sample(TEXT("http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/"));
    sample(TEXT("mailto:someone@example.com"));
    sample(TEXT("file://C:\\AUTOEXEC.BAT"));
    sample(TEXT("C:\\AUTOEXEC.BAT"));
    return 0;
}   

OUTPUT:
---------

ParseURL(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/) returned 0x00000000
Protocol = http
Suffix   = //msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
Scheme   = 2

ParseURL(mailto:someone@example.com) returned 0x00000000
Protocol = mailto
Suffix   = someone@example.com
Scheme   = 4

ParseURL(file://C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT) returned 0x00000000
Protocol = file
Suffix   = C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
Scheme   = 9

ParseURL(C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT) returned 0x80041001
                

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