Re: byte[] to string conversion ...

Hi Jamie,

System.Encoding has already the appropriate methods:

public static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] array)
{
if (array == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("array");
}
return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(array);
}

public static byte[] StringToByteArray(string value)
{
if (value == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("array");
}
return Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(value);
}

Best Regards,

Wiebe Tijsma
http://www.e-office.com

Jamie Risk wrote:
This is the code snippet that I've come up to convert a byte[] to string. Is there a best practiced method for such a conversion?

- Jamie

public static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] array)
{
if (null == array || 0 == array.Length)
{
throw new NullReferenceException();
return null;
}
else
{
Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII;
char[] asciiChars =
new char[ascii.GetCharCount(array, 0, array.Length)];
string str = null;

ascii.GetChars(array, 0, array.Length, asciiChars, 0);

foreach (string s in (new string(asciiChars)).Split('\n'))
{
if (str != null) str += Environment.NewLine;
str += s.Trim();
}
return str;
}
}
.

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