foreach() giving a strange cannot convert error?

[SirGive]

I'm converting a bit of code from the OLD m2h tutorial (UnityScript into C#), but one line isn't working for me. Here is the code that I've converted that is giving me problems:

string[] chatEntries;
class ChatEntries
{
    public string name = "";
    public string text = "";
}

and this use of foreach is declared illegal?

foreach ( ChatEntries entry in chatEntries)
{
}

The error that I get is that I "cannot convert a string to ChatEntries." What am I missing?

EDIT: Here is the UnityScript version from M2H:

private var chatEntries = new ArrayList();
class ChatEntry
{
    var name : String= "";
    var text : String= "";  
}

and

for (var entry : ChatEntry in chatEntries)
{
}

[system]

chatEntries is an array of strings in your code. You need to change it to:

ChatEntries[] chatEntries;

[system]

chatEntries does not contain ChatEntries.

If you want to use a array of chatEntries you need Declare it a array of ChatEntries like so:

class ChatEntries
{
    public string name = "";
    public string text = "";
}
.
.
.
ChatEntries[] chatEntries = new ChatEntries();

and the foreach:

foreach ( ChatEntries entry in chatEntries)
{

}

Edit

var is implicitly typed variables, typed by the compiler.

From MSDN:

Beginning in Visual C# 3.0, variables that are declared at method scope can have an implicit type var. An implicitly typed local variable is strongly typed just as if you had declared the type yourself, but the compiler determines the type. The following two declarations of i are functionally equivalent:functionally equivalent:

var i = 10; // implicitly typed
int i = 10; //explicitly typed