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How do I convert String to byte[] array and vice versa? I need strings to be stored in some binary storage. Please show example in both directions. And one more thing: each string maybe bigger than 90Kb.
If you want to use UTF-8 encoding:
// string to byte[]
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(someString);
// byte[] to string
string anotherString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
Before you march off and use one of the examples someone's already given you should be aware that there is, in general, no unique mapping between a string and a sequence of bytes. How the string is mapped to binary (and vice versa) is determined by the encoding that you use. Joel Spolsky wrote an awesome article on this subject.
When decoding binary to get a string, you need to use the same encoding as was used to produce the binary in the first place, otherwise you'll run into problems.
Use the Encoding class.
How do I get a consistent byte representation of strings in C# without manually specifying an encoding?
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I have a string like this:
string a1 = "{`name`:`санкт_петербург`,`shortName`:`питер`,`hideByDefault`:false}";
a1. length shows that string length is 68, which is not true: Cyrillic symbols are twice as big (because of UTF-16 encoding, I presume), therefore the real length of this string is 87.
I need to either get the number of Cyrillic symbols in the string or get real string length in any other way.
From the MSDN:
The .NET Framework uses the UTF-16 encoding (represented by the UnicodeEncoding class) to represent characters and string
So a1.Length is in UTF-16 code units (What's the difference between a character, a code point, a glyph and a grapheme?). Cyrillic characters, being in the base BMP (Base Multilingual Plane), all use a single code unit (so a single char). Many emoji for example use TWO code units (two char, 4 bytes!)... They aren't in the BMP. See for example https://ideone.com/ASDORp.
If you want the size IN BYTES, a1.Length * 2 clearly is the length :-) If you want to know in UTF8 (a very common encoding, NOT USED INTERNALLY BY .NET, but very used by the web, xml, ...) how many bytes it would be Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(a1)
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I have a project which is using (I assume) .NET Core. I have a library which stores securely key-pair values. The key is string and the value should be a byte[], so I have to convert the string that I want to store as byte[]:
bytes[] my_bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(txtSomeInfo.Text)
The problem is when i retrieve the value, because is an byte[] array i should convert it back to string like this:
my_string = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(my_bytes)
I found it some answers in Stack Overflow, but... I can't use it just like that because this version of GetString method of System.Text.Encoding is asking for two additional parameters: int index, and int count
How can I get my string back?
my_string = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(my_bytes, 0, my_bytes.Length);
As Jon points out in the comments, the C# naming standards use camelCase for local variables so you should rename my_bytes and my_string to myBytes and myString respectively.
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This is a duplicate question, my apologies everyone!
Firstly, I apologize if this is a simple question, I have been searching for a very long time, and either an answer about this does not exist, the answer I am looking for has been buried under answers to questions about how to convert a string to a byte array, or I'm not searching with the right terminology. I have also found a few answers on converting a single hex value into a byte but applying those methods to work with what I want to do doesn't really seem to work very well.
What I am looking for is not how to convert "string" to a byte array, rather, I am trying to convert an already in bytes value from a textbox, into something my application will recognize as a byte array. I'll try to explain better with an example:
textBox.Text = 019F314A
I want byte[] bytes to equal { 0x01, 0x9F, 0x31, 0x4A }
Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks to anyone who can offer any assistance!
I believe you can use Convert.ToByte(), you might have to slice your string in pairs and loop through it.
If you do a quick search there are many topics on this already on stackoverflow
How do you convert Byte Array to Hexadecimal String, and vice versa?
You can also look at this MS example, it is to convert to int, but the idea is the same.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb311038.aspx
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i have string like
string test = "0x527AE53437CAED39D3E2A8B3E90FFC3BA9073B6D933BC05FF6677B5521DC34"
How can i convert the string to byte[]?
use SoapHexBinary in namespace System.Runtime.Remoting.Metadata.W3cXsd2001
string s = "0x527AE53437CAED39D3E2A8B3E90FFC3BA9073B6D933BC05FF6677B5521DC34";
byte[] num = SoapHexBinary.Parse(s.Substring(2)).Value;
That string is hexadecimal.
If you want to convert it to a numeric you're going to need special handling - that's a very big number and will overflow the basic types.
If it was a reasonable size, all numeric types are agnostic of base-representation. To see a hexadecimal version of a number, you simply call .ToString("X") on it.
EDIT
My answer was based on the initial version of the question before the byte[] was specified. There is a previous SO question and answer for this: How can I convert a hex string to a byte array?
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I posted a slimier question before but didn't got a correct answer..
my problem is i have a binary string as
00100000011101110110000101101110011101000010000001110100011011110010000001100100011011110111
Which im required to convert to "Normal ASCII String Text"
I used BinaryReader and read and encode System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII but im getting the same 0101010 string
byte[] bytearray = b.ReadBytes((int)length);
System.Text.Encoding encEncoder = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII;
string bb = encEncoder.GetString(bytearray);
any help will be grateful !
first translate the binary string into a byte[] using How could I encode a string of 1s and 0s for transport?
next use the Convert.ToBase64String method to get the actual System.String