Getting the data in a CRichEditCtrl

below i'm trying to copy all the contents in a CRichEditCtrl into a data array. but GetLine() returns nothing. though GetLineCount() returns the correct number of text lines.
please, any help.

Code:

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CRichEditCtrl& crec =  GetRichEditCtrl();//get the CRichEditCtrl object associated with this CRichEditView object
        int linen = crec.GetLineCount();//get CRichEditCtrl's line count
        LPSTR data[MAX_PATH];
        //fill the data array with the contents of the CRichEditCtrl
        for(int i=0; i<linen; i++)
        {
                int charn = crec.GetLine(i,data[i]);
        }

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