c++ string^ to char*

  const char *p = "D:\\";
  const WCHAR *pwcsName; //LPCWSTR
  
  // required size
  int size = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, p, -1, NULL, 0);
  // allocate it
  pwcsName = new WCHAR[nChars];
  MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, p, -1, (LPWSTR)pwcsName, size);
  // use it....
    
  // delete it
  delete [] pwcsName;
}

// CPP program to convert string 
// to char array 
#include <bits/stdc++.h> 
  
using namespace std; 
  
// driver code 
int main() 
{ 
    // assigning value to string s 
    string s = "geeksforgeeks"; 
  
    int n = s.length(); 
  
    // declaring character array 
    char char_array[n + 1]; 
  
    // copying the contents of the 
    // string to char array 
    strcpy(char_array, s.c_str()); 
  
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) 
        cout << char_array[i]; 
  
    return 0; 
} 

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  char c = 'l';
  string str;
  str.push_back(c);
}

std::cout << std::string(1, c) << std::endl;

String^ test = L"I am a .Net string of type System::String";
IntPtr ptrToNativeString = Marshal::StringToHGlobalAnsi(test);
char* nativeString = static_cast<char*>(ptrToNativeString.ToPointer());