This question is related to Windows registry key opening.

Please refer to the following two lines of VC++ code

printf ("queryRegistry Setting:%s - %s - %s\n", subElement,
variableName, variableType);
[color=blue]
> output: queryRegistrySe tting: Software\\xx\\x x\\xx\\xx\\xx - Args -[/color]
EXPAND_STRING

long result = RegOpenKeyEx (HKEY_LOCAL_MAC HINE, subElement, 0,
KEY_ALL_ACCESS,...