Convert an Object to an array of strings.

[james]

I wrote values to the registry in a "MultiString" registry type. I now want
to retrieve these into a string array.
I use this:

String[] LoadedObject = SUBKEY.GetValue(KeyNames[i].ToString())

but this gives an error "Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to
'string[]'. Which is fine, but what do I do?

Googling, I saw this:

= (string[])<object>.ToArray(typeof(string));

but my object (the getvalue) bit doesn't seem to offer "ToArray".

James.

[Göran Andersson]

Cast the value that you get back to the actual data type. If the object
really is a string array, cast it as such:

string[] LoadedObject = (string[])SUBKEY.GetValue(KeyNames[i].ToString());

james wrote:

I wrote values to the registry in a "MultiString" registry type. I now want
to retrieve these into a string array.
I use this:

String[] LoadedObject = SUBKEY.GetValue(KeyNames[i].ToString())

but this gives an error "Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to
'string[]'. Which is fine, but what do I do?

Googling, I saw this:

= (string[])<object>.ToArray(typeof(string));

but my object (the getvalue) bit doesn't seem to offer "ToArray".

James.

[james]

"Göran Andersson" <gu***@guffa.comwrote in message
news:uB**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Cast the value that you get back to the actual data type. If the object
really is a string array, cast it as such:

string[] LoadedObject = (string[])SUBKEY.GetValue(KeyNames[i].ToString());

That worked a treat - I was obviously over complicating it!

James.