If the alphabet of object is char or wchar_t the return value is a c-style string representing the contents of object. Calling this function for non-contiguous containers will raise a compilation error. To create c-style strings for non-contiguous strings or strings with different alphabets, use a CStyle String as an intermediate.

For strings that store their elements in a contiguous block (see IsContiguous) a pointer to first element of object is returned. The last element is followed by a default constructed element.