Thread: Converting String to Char Array

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    Converting String to Char Array

    I'm using VC++ 2005 EE.

    I have a win32 form with a text box and I want to convert the text from that text box into an array of char's

    Kind of like
    Code:
    TCHAR* s[1] = {"Hello World!"};
    But I want to do
    Code:
    TCHAR* s[1] = {txtBox->Text};
    I've tryed fiddling around with a few things like txtBox->Text->ToCharArray() and using strcpy but I couldn't get them to work.

    Thanks for any help.
    Last edited by Tanner.B; 04-06-2007 at 09:55 PM.

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    http://www.cppreference.com/cppstring/c_str.html

    assuming your talking about standard c++ 'string's and 'char*'s

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    >I've tryed fiddling around with a few things like txtBox->Text->ToCharArray() and using strcpy
    Probably something like:
    Code:
    TCHAR s[100];
    strcpy(s, txtBox->Text->ToCharArray());
    Or whatever the tchar version of strcpy() is.

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