convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'

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What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

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EitanB

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And vise vers, i.e.: convert type 'string' to 'byte[]'

"Eitan" wrote:

What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

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EitanB

[Christof Nordiek]

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What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

The method GetString of the right Encoding instance.
For the other direction use GetBytes.

In either case, you have to know the right encoding

Christof

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Eitan

"Christof Nordiek" wrote:

"Eitan" <Ei***@discussions.microsoft.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
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What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

The method GetString of the right Encoding instance.
For the other direction use GetBytes.

In either case, you have to know the right encoding

Christof

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Oct 5, 2:51 pm, Eitan <[e-mail]:

What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

That entirely depends on what the data is. If it's intrinsically text
data, you should pick the right encoding and use Encoding.GetString.

If it's arbitrary binary data that you want to preserve as a string
and then convert back to binary data later, use Convert.ToBase64String
and Convert.FromBase64String.

Jon

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EitanB

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

On Oct 5, 2:51 pm, Eitan <[e-mail]:

What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

That entirely depends on what the data is. If it's intrinsically text
data, you should pick the right encoding and use Encoding.GetString.

If it's arbitrary binary data that you want to preserve as a string
and then convert back to binary data later, use Convert.ToBase64String
and Convert.FromBase64String.

Jon

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Assuming the data is in a format and encoding that will correctly convert,
you can use shorthand static methods like:

string myString =System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(myByteArray);
and
byte[] myByteArray = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myString);
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"Eitan" wrote:

What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

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EitanB

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EitanB

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" wrote:

Assuming the data is in a format and encoding that will correctly convert,
you can use shorthand static methods like:

string myString =System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(myByteArray);
and
byte[] myByteArray = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myString);
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"Eitan" wrote:

What would be the "right" way to convert type 'byte[]' to 'string'?

Thanks
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