How to assaign textbox value to the String/char array?

[roshantha08]

I wrote following code. It's compile properly. when i enter 2 characters in to textbox at run time, it gives an error. Error is :
"String must be exactly one character long."
this is the program, I wote:

#pragma endregion
	private: System::Void btnSend_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {
				
				char caEntry[10];
				
				String ^ strTextBoxContent;
				strTextBoxContent = txtEntry->Text;

				caEntry[0] = strTextBoxContent[0];
				//caEntry[1] = strTextBoxContent[1];
				
				 serialPort1->Open();
				 serialPort1->Write(Convert::ToString(caEntry[0]));

				// serialPort1->Write(Convert::ToString(caEntry[1]));
				 serialPort1->Close();
			 }

I want to know how to separate the textbox content and it assign to the char array...
thank u...

[jonsca]

You don't have to go through all this as Write() has an overload that takes a string directly. If you had to go the route you planned you can use the ToCharArray() method of the string to get the array that you need.