I am a fresh Visual C++ .NET Developer. Convert char[1024] to System::String

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I am a fresh Visual C++ .NET Developer. Can you kindly guide me for
How to Convert char[1024] to System::String

I am using windows forms and trying to set a text value referencing
the method className() of an object of class HetConvert (my own) this
returns a char - which as you can see from the code below I am trying
to pass to label1->Text - but this expects a String^

any clues anyone

Thanks

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public: System::Void label1_Click(System::Object^ sender,
System::EventArgs^ e) {

HetConvert *hetcnv = new HetConvert ( "Hetcnv" );

char outputString[1024] ;

strcpy(outputString, (hetcnv->className()+ '\0') ) ;


label1->Text= outputString ;


}
 
I am a fresh Visual C++ .NET Developer. Can you kindly guide me for
How to Convert char[1024] to System::String

I am using windows forms and trying to set a text value referencing
the method className() of an object of class HetConvert (my own) this
returns a char - which as you can see from the code below I am trying
to pass to label1->Text - but this expects a String^

any clues anyone

Thanks

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public: System::Void label1_Click(System::Object^ sender,
System::EventArgs^ e) {

HetConvert *hetcnv = new HetConvert ( "Hetcnv" );

char outputString[1024] ;

strcpy(outputString, (hetcnv->className()+ '\0') ) ;
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And what do you think that line does? What data type does className()
return? You are adding a character constant zero, if className() is a char*
(which it must be if passed to strcpy), then the '\0' is promoted to
(ssize_t)0, which adds a zero offset to the pointer.

You aren't appending a null character to the string, and you're risking a
buffer overflow and reducing performance for no purpose.
label1->Text= outputString ;
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Get rid of the temporary and use just
label1->Text = gcnew String(hetcnv->className());
 
I recommend looking up information on pointers and how strings work in
unmanaged C++. Native string types are memory addresses and adding them
does not append the strings. You can use the Standard Template Library
or MFC string class to make this easier.
 
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