How do I copy the content of a string to a char array?

Kueishiong Tu

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5) to a
char array of the same encoding?

I try the following

String line[] = S"123æ°´æ³¥" ;
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length() ; i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for the
next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Oct 16 '05 #1

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choongseng

Kueishiong Tu wrote:

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5) to a
char array of the same encoding?

I try the following

String line[] = S"123æ°´æ³¥" ;
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length() ; i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for the
next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Try to use WChar instead of Char.

Oct 17 '05 #2

Luc E. Mistiaen

why not use the ToCharArray method like in

char buffer[] = line.ToCharArra y() ;

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Kueishiong Tu wrote:
How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5)
to a char array of the same encoding?

I try the following String line[] = S"123??";
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length() ; i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for
the next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Try to use WChar instead of Char.

Oct 17 '05 #3

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Kueishiong Tu <Ku**********@d iscussions.micr osoft.com> wrote:

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5) to a
char array of the same encoding?

I try the following

String line[] = S"123??";
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length() ; i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for the
next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Character arrays don't *have* separate encodings as such - characters
are *always* Unicode in .NET.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html for more
information.

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Oct 17 '05 #4

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