Displaying character arrays

Question

How do I display a character array? I copy a string to a character array using the 'CopyTo' method, but when I attempt to display the character array in any of the following ways:
   Console.WriteLine("2nd char_array value is {0}", char_array);
   Console.WriteLine("3rd char_array value is " + Convert.ToString(char_array));
   string newstring;
   newstring = Convert.ToString(char_array);
   Console.WriteLine("4th char_array value is " + newstring);

I get the results:
2nd char_array value is System.Char[]
3rd char_array value is System.Char[]
4th char_array value is System.Char[]

Instead of the value in char_array.

Thanks for your help.

Peter Price

Vimal Kandasamy · Answer

Hi you can iterate using for loop to get char_array values Ex: char[] char_array ={ 'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' }; for (int i = 0; i Console.WriteLine(char_array[i]); Here i in char_array[i] refers index value of array... Index start with 0 and end with [no of chars in array-1]; and also you can convert it to string like below String str = new String(char_array); Console.WriteLine(str); For your code Console.WriteLine(2nd char_array value is {0} char_array[1]); Console.WriteLine(3rd char_array value is  + Convert.ToString(char_array[2])); string newstring; newstring = Convert.ToString(char_array[3]); Console.WriteLine(4th char_array value is  + newstring);