[RESOLVED] String[] to Byte[] index by index please

Okay, I have a text box for input, and from this text box I need to take the data and parse it out to bytes and send it to a controller card for processing. The input is temperature and should not be below 100 (this is not important right now). My main problem is I need byte[i] = string[i]; exactly. Not its byte value for the char that is represented. if string[i] = 2 I need byte[i] to = 2.

Here is the code I have so far. I get values but not what I want, and it overwrites my byte and only fills 1 array slot.

byte[] gen = new byte[5];
char[] holder = setpointBoxQS.Text.ToCharArray();
string[] conv = new string[holder.Length];

for (int i = 0; i < holder.Length; i++)
{
conv[i] = holder[i].ToString();
}

if (holder.Length > 2)
{
for (int i = 0; i <= holder.Length; i++)
{
gen = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(conv[i]);
}
}


Thanks for any help

I got it working for what I want it to do, but I cant help feel there is an easier way to do this.


byte[] gen = new byte[5];
char[] holder = setpointBoxQS.Text.ToCharArray();
string[] conv = new string[holder.Length];
int[] iconv = new int[holder.Length];

for (int i = 0; i < holder.Length; i++)
{
conv[i] = holder[i].ToString();
}

if (holder.Length > 2)
{
for (int i = 0; i < holder.Length; i++)
{
iconv[i] = Convert.ToInt32(conv[i]);
gen[i] = (byte)iconv[i];
}
}

This is what I came up with but I'm unhappy with all the conversions going on

Code:

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            const int GEN_SIZE = 5;
            string text = setpointBoxQS.Text;

            byte[] gen = new byte[GEN_SIZE];
            char[] holder = text.ToCharArray();

            for (int i = 0; i < holder.Length; i++)
            {
                //Process a full gen array
                if (i % GEN_SIZE == 0 &&
                    i != 0)
                {
                    //Our gen array is complete
                    //*** Do something with it
                }

                int byteValue = Convert.ToInt32(Convert.ToString(holder[i]));
                gen[i % GEN_SIZE] = (byte)byteValue;
            }

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