Introduction
The ToCharArray method of the string class converts a string to a character array. The following code snippet creates a string into a char array.
string sentence = "Mahesh Chand";
char[] charArr = sentence.ToCharArray();
foreach (char ch in charArr)
{
Console.WriteLine(ch);
}
The ToCharArray method has the following two overloaded forms.
String.ToCharArray() - Copies characters of the string to a unicode character array.
String.ToCharArray(Int32, Int32) - Copies characters of the substring to a unicode character array.
Here is a complete sample code.
public void StringToCharArray()
{
// Convert string to char array
string sentence = "Mahesh Chand";
char[] charArr = sentence.ToCharArray();
foreach (char ch in charArr)
{
Console.WriteLine(ch);
}
// Convert char array to string
char[] chars = new char[10];
chars[0] = 'M';
chars[1] = 'a';
chars[2] = 'h';
chars[3] = 'e';
chars[4] = 's';
chars[5] = 'h';
string charsStr = new string(chars);
string charsStr2 = new string(new char[]
{'T','h','i','s',' ','i','s',' ','a',' ','s','t','r','i','n','g'});
Console.WriteLine("Chars to string: {0}", charsStr);
Console.WriteLine("Chars to string: {0}", charsStr2);
}
The output looks like the following.