Convert a String to a Byte Array?

[skinc]

ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string s);

Returns a byte[]

"Brian" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63842ECA-6664-4353...@microsoft.com...
> I have a string that I received from a web service call and I want to
write it to a Stream. I cannot figure out how to access the string as a
byte array and write it to the Stream. Any thoughts. I looked at
Byte.Parse() but it will only convert a string represntation of a number and
convert it to a byte.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Brian <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have a string that I received from a web service call and I want to
> write it to a Stream. I cannot figure out how to access the string as
> a byte array and write it to the Stream. Any thoughts. I looked at
> Byte.Parse() but it will only convert a string represntation of a
> number and convert it to a byte.

You need to work out which encoding you need to use, and call GetBytes
on that encoding with the string.

For instance:

byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(...);

Alternatively, create a StreamWriter wrapping the stream, and write the
string to that. Again, you'll need to use the right encoding.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html

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