Re: How to Convert byte[] to String ? {simple request}

From: Morten Wennevik (MortenWennevik_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:27:26 +0200

Hi Nate,

As Patrick said, the bytes need to be filtered through some encoding before they would make sense. ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8, etc. Reading a string as a set of ascii characters would cause a mess if the bytes were unicode encoded.
The Encoding classes have a GetString method you can use.

Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

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