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Plastico Bolha
Plastico Bolha

Reputation: 11

What it mean: String^ name

What does this mean: String^ var_name ? I can do this only in CLR C/C++. And I know that ^ is a XOR.

What is the difference between:

`string name` and `String^ name`?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 421

Answers (4)

rak
rak

Reputation: 334

It is actually a heap pointer /handle to managed heap object. It is a pointer or index with no visible type attached to it.

Check these links out. Heap , How to Declare Handle

Upvotes: 0

Pierre Fourgeaud
Pierre Fourgeaud

Reputation: 14510

It is the handle to object operator. It declares a managed pointer.

They seem like normal pointers but you don't have to free them.

From here:

The handle declarator (^, pronounced "hat"), modifies the type specifier to mean that the declared object should be automatically deleted when the system determines that the object is no longer accessible.

A variable that is declared with the handle declarator behaves like a pointer to the object.

Upvotes: 2

Redwan
Redwan

Reputation: 758

String^ is managed string. ^ operator means that variable is an managed reference.

Upvotes: 0

Some programmer dude
Some programmer dude

Reputation: 409266

It's a managed pointer, i.e. a pointer which is garbage collected. Think of them as normal pointers, but you don't have to free them.

You have to use gcnew to allocate those pointers explicitly, not new.

Upvotes: 1

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