Re: convert int[] to byte[]

hi,

How the use of a BinaryWriter will avoid the need of a loop?


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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mimi <Mimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is there a way to convert int[] to byte[] easily?
>>
>> I want to write my int[] indexTbl to a MemoryStream but the MemoryStream
>> class only accepts byte[] buffer. I have more than one int[] indexTbl to
>> write to the stream so it would be nice if I could just write the whole
>> int[]
>> as a block and then read it back later when needed.
>>
>> I thought the Buffer class might be handy here but it seems to be best
>> for
>> converting byte[] to int[] with Block Copy.
>>
>> Any suggestions here. I am new to C# and wanted to avoid a for-loop and
>> convert each int to a byte and then write to the stream one by one.
>
> I'd suggest you use a BinaryWriter, assuming you want to convert each
> int to four bytes. If you need to convert each int to *one* byte,
> you'll need to loop through.
>
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