Convert to Char[] or just use String[i]

[pigeonrandle]

Quickie time!
Is indexing using String[i] to get individual characters 'as quick' as
converting the String to a Char[] and then using Char[i]? Is the
conversion to Char[] worth the processing?

In advance, i thank you,
James Randle.

[Christof Nordiek]

Hi James,

string is like a readonly char[]. Access of individual characters from a
string should be the same as accessing them from an char[]. So the
conversion to char[] would be only extra processing and memory management,
withour any use.

Christof

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Quickie time!
Is indexing using String[i] to get individual characters 'as quick' as
converting the String to a Char[] and then using Char[i]? Is the
conversion to Char[] worth the processing?

In advance, i thank you,
James Randle.

[pigeonrandle]

Christof,

Cheers.
Christof Nordiek wrote:

Hi James,

string is like a readonly char[]. Access of individual characters from a
string should be the same as accessing them from an char[]. So the
conversion to char[] would be only extra processing and memory management,
withour any use.

Christof

"pigeonrandle" <pi**********@hotmail.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11*********************@l53g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

Quickie time!
Is indexing using String[i] to get individual characters 'as quick' as
converting the String to a Char[] and then using Char[i]? Is the
conversion to Char[] worth the processing?

In advance, i thank you,
James Randle.

[Michael D. Ober]

Converting to a Char[] and then retrieving the indexed value will retrieve a
system.Char structure. Indexing into a string returns a system.String
object. Normally, the latter is quicker since there is no copy to an array,
but sometimes you want the char result.

Mike Ober.

"pigeonrandle" <pi**********@hotmail.comwrote in message
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Quickie time!
Is indexing using String[i] to get individual characters 'as quick' as
converting the String to a Char[] and then using Char[i]? Is the
conversion to Char[] worth the processing?

In advance, i thank you,
James Randle.

[Bill Butler]

"Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.no.spamwrote in message
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Indexing into a string returns a system.String object.

That is not true.
Indexing into a string returns a char

Bill