string type to char type with same effect

[kenneth6]

i am now having:
string* book=new string[100]; // string array

in Windows form application (managed code), i am unable to user it !
how can change it to char type with the same effect and use it in managed code?

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char * cstr;
string str ("Please split this phrase into tokens");

cstr = new char [str.size()+1];
strcpy (cstr, str.c_str());

[Laharl]

Not knowing any managed C++, all I can tell you is that the string class has a c_str() method that returns a null-terminated const char* with the same characters. That is, a C-string.

[weaknessforcats]

I don't believe you can use any pointers in managed code.

I think you have to create a String^ using gcnew and copy your data to that.

There should be info on this in Microsoft's interoperabilit y topics in MSDN.