I found this really nice piece of code that converts a string to a System:String^
as in:
System::String^ rtn = gcnew String(move.c_str()); // 'move' here is the string
I'm passing rtn back to a C# program. Anyways, inside the function where this code exists, I'm passing in a System::String^
. I also found some code to convert a System:String^
to a string using the following code:
pin_ptr<const wchar_t> wch = PtrToStringChars(cmd); // 'cmd' here is the System:String
size_t convertedChars = 0;
size_t sizeInBytes = ((cmd->Length + 1) * 2);
errno_t err = 0;
char *ch = (char *)malloc(sizeInBytes);
err = wcstombs_s(&convertedChars,ch, sizeInBytes,wch, sizeInBytes);
Now I can use 'ch' as a string.
This, however, seems to be alot more work than converting the other way using the gcnew
. So, at last my question is, is there something out there that will convert a System::String^
to string using a similar fashion as with the gcnew way?