What is the difference between these 2 lines?

Question

What do ^ and * do, for example:

char* k;

System::Diagnostics::Process^ k = gcnew Process();

Thanks

Answer 1

Not sure what the ^ does, but it looks like its a function pointer (I don't know for sure. It depends on what gcnew Process() returns)

The * means "pointer". So in this case, it means a "pointer to a character" which in classic C/C++ basically means "String".

the way you use the * for strings in C++ goes something like this

char * HelloWorld = new char[strlen("Hello World"+1)];

assert(HelloWorld!=NULL);

strcpy(HelloWorld,"Hello World");

cout << HelloWorld.

Output:

"Hello World"