' Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
' The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Utils
 
Namespace Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices
 
    <System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Never)>
    Public NotInheritable Class CharArrayType
        ' Prevent creation.
        Private Sub New()
        End Sub
 
        Public Shared Function FromString(ByVal Value As String) As Char()
 
            If Value Is Nothing Then
                Value = ""
            End If
 
            Return Value.ToCharArray()
 
        End Function
 
        Public Shared Function FromObject(ByVal Value As Object) As Char()
 
            If Value Is Nothing Then
                Return "".ToCharArray()
            End If
 
            Dim CharArray As Char() = TryCast(Value, Char())
 
            If CharArray IsNot Nothing AndAlso CharArray.Rank = 1 Then
                Return CharArray
 
            Else
                Dim ValueInterface As IConvertible
                ValueInterface = TryCast(Value, IConvertible)
 
                If Not ValueInterface Is Nothing Then
                    If (ValueInterface.GetTypeCode() = TypeCode.String) Then
                        Return ValueInterface.ToString(Nothing).ToCharArray()
                    End If
                End If
 
            End If
 
            Throw New InvalidCastException(SR.Format(SR.InvalidCast_FromTo, VBFriendlyName(Value), "Char()"))
 
        End Function
 
    End Class
 
End Namespace