Converting from System::String * into Char *

[BrimStonePhoenix]

I have a windows forms application, and i'm trying to read in text from 2 text boxes (which are going to contain a filename and a path), and then use sprintf to put them both into a single char[]. Any other ways of going about this problem? Any way to get this conversion to work?

 

[xwb]

You're going from managed to unmanaged. This is dangerous territory as it isn't guaranteed to work. In fact, MS even acknowledges that it can lock up your PC. I have seen the lockups happen a couple of times.

There is a managed equivalent of sprintf that you can use called Format.

Basically keep to all managed or all unmanaged and don't mix the two. If you do, you'll be there forever. Not only that: it is next to impossible to debug as Visual Studio keeps on locking up whenever you try debugging with both CLR and native.