How to convert a string to a character array?

I am having some problem here.
let' say that

string c="Hello";
char a[5];

how can i convert the string to a character array? Urgent

you could increment your string and place all individually indexed location of the string into each individual location of the character array. you could do it with one loop, a string, and a char array. i unfortunatly do not recall any premade function to do this instantly.

The string class contains a function that returns the string as a character array:

Code:

string c="Hello";
strcat(a, c.c_str());   // the character array a will now contain "Hello"

thank you

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    std::string str1 = "Hello";
    char str2[str1.length() + 1];
    //we can't just use length that would result in not null terminating 
    std::strcpy(str2,str1.c_str());
    
    std::cout<<"str1.length() = "<<str1.length()<<std::endl;//here is proof :)
    std::cout<<"str1 = "<<str1<<std::endl;
    std::cout<<"str2 = "<<str2<<std::endl;
    
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
}