How do you get a byte array out of a string in C#? I would like to pass a string to this method.
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This is an exact duplicate.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/472906/net-string-to-byte-array-c – Jaco Pretorius Sep 27 '10 at 09:40
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Also a duplicate of this... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/241405/how-do-you-convert-a-string-to-a-byte-array-in-net – Jaco Pretorius Sep 27 '10 at 09:41
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1@Jaco Pretorius: Yes, I guess so, but I don't like the accepted answers in either of those. I like the accepted answer in this one. Always use UTF-8 unless you have a very good reason to use something else. – President James K. Polk Sep 27 '10 at 22:25
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Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("abcd");
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1It's just an example. But UTF8 is very common. `Encoding.Default` would be another good example. See [Encoding Properties](http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.text.encoding_properties.aspx) for more Information – Noffls Aug 01 '11 at 05:46
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public static byte[] StrToByteArray(string str)
{
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding=new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
return encoding.GetBytes(str);
}
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4Why create a new instance of UTF8Encoding when you can use Encoding.UTF8? – Jon Skeet Sep 27 '10 at 09:39
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