ansi string

[Dave]

Hi,
how can i create an ansi string in c#(not unicode)?
How can i convert a string member lets say string str="12345" to char*
s="12345" becuse the unicode "12345" is "1020304050" and i need to cinvert
it to char* in c# but i dont have pointers in c# so what can i do???

Thanks

[Bob Grommes]

You most certainly do have pointers in C#, you simply have to declare an
unsafe code block to use them.

In C# though you should avoid unsafe code when possible. The string indexer
will return each character in a string, as will a foreach statement:

foreach (char c in myString) {
// do something with c
}

or:

for (int i = 0;i++;i < myString.Length) {
// do something with myString[i]
}

--Bob

"Dave" <be******@netvision.net.il> wrote in message
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Hi,
how can i create an ansi string in c#(not unicode)?
How can i convert a string member lets say string str="12345" to char*
s="12345" becuse the unicode "12345" is "1020304050" and i need to cinvert
it to char* in c# but i dont have pointers in c# so what can i do???

Thanks

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Dave,

If by char you mean an 8 bit unsigned value, you can get that using the Encoding of your choice and the GetBytes method

string s = "12345";
Encoding e = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
byte[] b = e.GetBytes(s);

If a pointer is needed, use an unsafe code block as Bob said.
A Char, as well as String, is always Unicode in C#.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...detutorial.asp
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 23:18:59 +0200, Dave <be******@netvision.net.il> wrote:

Hi,
how can i create an ansi string in c#(not unicode)?
How can i convert a string member lets say string str="12345" to char*
s="12345" becuse the unicode "12345" is "1020304050" and i need to cinvert
it to char* in c# but i dont have pointers in c# so what can i do???

Thanks

--
Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]