Jamie Justice wrote:

I need to convert a char array to a byte array of ASCII encoded characters to send over a TCP connection, but I can't use the CLR(and therefore the System namespace) with boost. Does anyone have a solution to this?

This is not very much information. What kind of char array? Does it contain ASCII-encoded characters in the first place (i.e. is your program only compatible with ASCII-based platforms (likely, if you considered using C++/CLI), and there are no non-ASCII characters in your array)? If so, your char array *is* the byte array you want. Does it contain non-ASCII characters in some encoding? Well, then you do you intend to get it to ASCII? Is it really a wchar_t array containing some wide encoding? Well, the same problem applies to non-ASCII characters. Aside from that, the codecvt facet of the locale should be perfectly capable of doing the conversion. Sebastian