Access violation when using IShellFolder2

[FreeSlave]

On Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 15:20:54 UTC, John Chapman 
wrote:
> 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);

Thank you again for consulting. I thought these character are 
part of the date format. This is all working now.