Convert String* to char*

[Guest]

Hi,
I have a managed C++ app in which i need to convert String * to char *.
How can i achive this?.


regards
-sarab

 

[Tamas Demjen]

There's a useful article about it:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311259

Tom

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Hi,
I have a managed C++ app in which i need to convert String * to
char *. How can i achive this?.

See System.String.PtrToStringChars() to get a wchar_t __pin*. You can then
use wcstombs() or WideCharToMultiByte() to convert that wide-character
string to a narrow-character string.

-cd

 

[Guest]

Thanks

-sarab

There's a useful article about it:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311259

Tom

 

[Guest]

acting on CString you got LockBuffer( ) and ReleaseBuffer() too

 

[Doug Harrison [MVP]]

Hi,
I have a managed C++ app in which i need to convert String * to char *.
How can i achive this?.

This article describes several ways:

How To Convert from System::String* to Char* in Visual C++ .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;311259