On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Mike James <foo at bar.com> wrote: > Got it - so I should do this... > > const char[] array1= "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; > char[] array2 = new char[array1.length]; Just "char[] array2 = array1.dup;" .dup duplicates the array by creating a new array the same length and copying the data over.