Encoding Question

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From: C# Learner (csharp_at_learner.here)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:08:49 +0000

Imagine the following scenario.

You receive a byte array from a socket. This byte array contains both
text and binary data; it contains text fields delimited by specified
byte sequences.

For example:

"one \xC0\x80 two \xC0\x80 three"

The way I'm currently dealing with this is to convert the byte array to
a string with the following function, then splitting the string by the
delimiter sub-string.

public static string GetString(byte[] data)
{
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; ++i) {
                sb.Append((char)data[i]);
        }

        return sb.ToString();
}

I know this is a hack, but is there a better way?

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