String to Byte Array

[Tom]

Stupid Question: Have a string ("ABC"); need to convert that to a byte array
(Dim x(3) as Byte). Do I have to do this manually or is there a .NET
command to do it automatically?

Tom

[Armin Zingler]

"Tom" <to*@nospam.com> schrieb

Stupid Question: Have a string ("ABC"); need to convert that to a
byte array (Dim x(3) as Byte). Do I have to do this manually or is
there a .NET command to do it automatically?

dim x as byte()

x = System.text.encoding.unicode.getbytes("ABC")

converts to a Unicode encoded byte array.
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[Tom]

Armin: Cool, thanks! However, I had to use
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes to convert it properly - otherwise, I
was getting a NULL (chr(0)) between each character.

Also, I see that System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetChars converts it back to a
string value.

Tom

"Armin Zingler" <az*******@freenet.de> wrote in message
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"Tom" <to*@nospam.com> schrieb

Stupid Question: Have a string ("ABC"); need to convert that to a
byte array (Dim x(3) as Byte). Do I have to do this manually or is
there a .NET command to do it automatically?

dim x as byte()

x = System.text.encoding.unicode.getbytes("ABC")

converts to a Unicode encoded byte array.
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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Tom" <to*@nospam.com> scripsit:

Also, I see that System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetChars converts it back to a
string value.

If you want a string, you can use 'GetString' instead of 'GetChars'.

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[Armin Zingler]

"Tom" <to*@nospam.com> schrieb

Armin: Cool, thanks! However, I had to use
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes to convert it properly -
otherwise, I was getting a NULL (chr(0)) between each character.
That's what Unicode encoding means: 2 bytes per character.

ASCII: You know that ASCII is 7 bits only, i.e. no values > 127 possible?
Also, I see that System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetChars converts it back
to a string value.

Why not GetString instead of GetChars?

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Armin

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Tom,
Remember that ASCII only supports characters 0 to 127, if you want
characters 0 to 255 then you may want to consider using Encoding.Default
instead, which is set to your current Windows Code Page.

There is also Encoding.UTF7 & Encoding UTF8 which will give 1 byte per char,
however they do interesting things with characters 128 to 255...

For a series of links on Unicode, Ascii, Ansi & various encodings used see:
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html

Hope this helps
Jay

"Tom" <to*@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Armin: Cool, thanks! However, I had to use
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes to convert it properly - otherwise, I
was getting a NULL (chr(0)) between each character.

Also, I see that System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetChars converts it back to a
string value.

Tom

"Armin Zingler" <az*******@freenet.de> wrote in message
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"Tom" <to*@nospam.com> schrieb

Stupid Question: Have a string ("ABC"); need to convert that to a
byte array (Dim x(3) as Byte). Do I have to do this manually or is
there a .NET command to do it automatically?

dim x as byte()

x = System.text.encoding.unicode.getbytes("ABC")

converts to a Unicode encoded byte array.
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