Array.ToString() returning System.Char[] c#

Question

Im making a hangman game, at the start of the game the word that the player must guess is printed as stars. I have just started making it again after attempting to write it

Answer 1

Try this code:

static string ConvertCharArr2Str(char[] chs)
{
    var s = "";
    foreach (var c in chs)
    {
        s += c;
    }
    return s;
}

Answer 2

Calling ToString on a simple array only returns "T[]" regardless what the type T is. It doesn't have any special handling for char[].

To convert a char[] to string you can use:

string s = new string(charArray);

But for your concrete problem there is an even simpler solution:

string stars = new string('*', PlayerOneWord.Length);

The constructor public String(char c, int count) repeats c count times.

Answer 3

The correct way to do this would be:

string StarString = new string(stars);

ToString() calls the standard implementation of the Array-class's ToString-method which is the same for all Arrays and similarily to object only returns the fully qualified class name.

Answer 4

The variable stars is an array of chars. This is the reason you get this error. As it is stated in MSDN

Returns a string that represents the current object.

In order you get a string from the characters in this array, you could use this:

 Console.Write("Word to Guess: {0}" , new String(stars));