Tim Huffam

yeah just fyi, the encoding classes help you keep the byte ordering right ;)

i found it useful thanks.

Thanks for publishing it. It saved me (and others) some time!

its gonna save me

Thanks i am looking for that

Or if you like, you can do it in two lines instead of three, like this:

byte[] myByteArray = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("a text string");

string myString = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(myByteArray );

Thanks. I wrote my complete application and was just planning to write my own function for converting byte array to string. Suddenly thought of finding something on Google and see I found it. Thanks a lot. This is small thing but saved me time. Appreciate it.

- Manoj

Thanks,It's very usefull

It is fantantic!!! I was looking for that for so long!!!!!
Bravo, fucking american!!!

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

@Stevie: While correct that you could reduce to 2 lines in place of 3. Keeping the enc as a separate variable will allow for easier future refactoring (i.e. it could be set a one location in your code base).

cheers dude saved me some hassle, I was fooled into thinking .ToString(); did something. Then came the confusion followed by the straw clutching then came google :)

Thank you very much for this help.

does it also work to convert your string to another encoding?

byte[] myByteArray = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("a text string");

string myString = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(myByteArray );

very simple and nice! Thank you so much!!!

do we need to import any jar for using the System.Text.Encoding??

Extremly Simple and fully working...! I had been googling for a simple solution since long, Thanx a lot for this.

@pfarrell
i agree with u. 3 line simple code is better that 2 line less readable code ...

Thanks.

The days when byte ~ char are gone. :)
I was initially frustrated when...

byte[] x = (byte[]) "blahblah"

did not work, until the old head began working.

...Of course, one wonders why every data type is not naturally automatically convertable to byte[]...or may bit[] :)

How to convert a string to a byte array and convert a byte array to a string with out using system objects

Thanks for the snippet... really appreciate it..

String s = "This is test";
byte[] stringtoBytes = s.getBytes();

Hi,I was trying to use this code
System.Text.Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;
However the eclipse editor is saying System.Text cannot be resolved.Any help would be appreciated.

Nice stuff, but won't work if you are using the special language characters (what the people calls 'Extended ASCII').

Any work arround for the 'Extended ASCII' (using 8 bytes instead of 7).

just what I was looking for.. thanks

'Extended ASCII' implementation
public static byte[] GetBytes(string chars)
{

return Array.ConvertAll(chars.ToCharArray(),
delegate(char c)
{
unchecked
{
if (c > 0xFF)
{
return (byte) '?';
}
else
{
return (byte) c;
}

}
}
);
}