moondaddy,
In addition to the other comments:
Does your byte array contain Char codes, such as ASCII, ANSI, or Unicode
characters? In which case you can use System.Text.Encoding.GetBytes &
Encoding.GetString to convert to & from a string (as Cor & Herfried
suggested).
Of if you simply want a comma delimited list of numbers from the Byte Array
I would create a couple of helper functions (As Peter suggested).
Something like:
Private Shared Function ArrayToString(ByVal bytes() As Byte, Optional
ByVal format As String = Nothing) As String
If bytes.Length = 0 Then Return String.Empty
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder(bytes.Length * 4)
For Each b As Byte In bytes
sb.Append(b.ToString(format))
sb.Append(","c)
Next
sb.Length -= 1
Return sb.ToString()
End Function
Private Shared Function StringToArray(ByVal s As String, Optional ByVal
style As System.Globalization.NumberStyles = Nothing) As Byte()
If s.Length = 0 Then Return New Byte() {}
Dim values() As String = s.Split(","c)
Dim bytes(values.Length - 1) As Byte
For index As Integer = 0 To values.Length - 1
bytes(index) = Byte.Parse(values(index), style)
Next
Return bytes
End Function
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim mByte() As Byte = New Byte() {11, 22, 33, 44}
Dim myStr As String
'myStr = ArrayToString(mByte, "x2")
myStr = ArrayToString(mByte)
Debug.WriteLine(myStr)
mByte = Nothing
'mByte = StringToArray(myStr,
Globalization.NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier)
mByte = StringToArray(myStr)
End Sub
Hope this helps
Jay
"moondaddy" <mo*******@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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| I'm writing an app in vb.net 1.1 and need to convert a byte array into a
| string, and then from a string back to a byte array.
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| for example
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| Private mByte() as New Byte(4){11,22,33,44}
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| Now how do I convert it to:
| dim myStr as string = "11,22,33,44"
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| and then back to the byte array?
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| Thanks.
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