What is the point of using String.ToCharArray if the string is a char array?

Question

string s = "string"; Console.WriteLine(s[1]); // returns t char[] chars = s.ToCharArray(); Console.WriteLine(chars[1]); // also returns t 

So what is the point in this method?

Answer 1

The string is not a char array. You are confused by the fact that it has a pointer that returns char, since it is a char array.

Answer 2

Just because you can write s[1] does not mean that the string a char, this means that string has an indexer that returns a char . The fact that indexers are available with the same syntax as accessing an array member is a C # language function.

Answer 3

System.String is not an array of characters. If you need an array of characters (for example, to pass as an argument to the method that expects it), you will need to do this conversion.