Question

I’m pretty new to C++/CLI and I am trying to convert a System::String to a System::Char array.

Here’s what I have so far:

private: System::Void modeToolStripMenuItem_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {
             Mode frmMode;
             if(frmMode.ShowDialog() == System::Windows::Forms::DialogResult::OK){
                 array <Char>^ load [] = gcnew array<Char>(txtbxName->Text->ToCharArray());
             }
         }

txtbxName is a textbox inside a the form. Supposedly, this should work, but I get the compiler error:

error C2440: cannot convert from 'cli::array<Type> ^' to 'cli::array<Type> ^[]'

for the fourth line of the snippet.

Answer 1

ToCharArray is already giving you the array, you don’t need to create a new one. In addition, as the other answerer noted, you don’t need to specify [] to create the array variable, array<> is sufficient.

array<Char>^ load = txtbxName->Text->ToCharArray();