Hard to remember not only the classes to use but the static ones as well from within thousands of them:( I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with an overloaded ToString() :)
Cetin

>Even better, Cetin, would be to use the static methods (so you don't need to instantiate a class):
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>string myString = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(ascii.GetBytes(ca));
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>~~Bonnie
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>>>There has to be an easier method to convert a char array to a string. Currently I loop through the char array and build my string on char at the time.
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>>>char[] ca = new char[3];
>>>ca[0] = 'a';
>>>ca[1] = 'b';
>>>ca[2] = 'c';
>>>
>>>string myString = "";
>>>for (int i = 0; i<ca.Length;i++)
>>>{
>>>  myString = myString + ca[i].ToString();
>>>}
>>>

>>>
>>>Einar
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>>System.Text.ASCIIEncoding ascii = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
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>>string myString = ascii.GetString(ascii.GetBytes(ca));
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Cetin