byte[] to char[]

[C Learner]

I'm new to C# and I wondered how to convert an Array of byte to array chars?
Provided that I have this array
byte[] a = new byte[50];

Thx.

[Shakir Hussain]

byte[] a = new byte[50];

char [] cArray= System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(a).ToCharArra y();
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I'm new to C# and I wondered how to convert an Array of byte to array chars? Provided that I have this array
byte[] a = new byte[50];

Thx.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

C Learner <CL******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I'm new to C# and I wondered how to convert an Array of byte to array chars?
Provided that I have this array
byte[] a = new byte[50];

Use the appropriate Encoding - which one you pick will entirely depend
on your needs.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Shakir Hussain <sh**@fakedomain.com> wrote:

byte[] a = new byte[50];

char [] cArray= System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(a).ToCharArra y();

There's no need for the copying here - just use Encoding.GetChars.
However, there's no guarantee that ASCII is going to be the appropriate
encoding to use.

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