string to byte[]

[FoodBard]

how do I do string to byte[]?

there is
Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes
Convert.FromBase64String
BitConverter
Encoding.UTF8
UnicodeEncoding

etc

I don't understand all the diff.

AFAIK the input will be not limited to ascii. It will have eg Japanese input from a J WinXP.

Also, what is the big/little endian deal? I thought .net frame should deal with those details??

[Andy Tacker]

you can use... the one...

Encoding.default.getbytes() function.

[FoodBard]

how about dealing with Japanese input from a J WinXP.
then reading the same on Eng WinXP?

This endian thing is also worrying, one day someone's going to run .net on some wierd processor and everything will explode??!

[darwen]

If you're doing the conversion using Unicode then you'll be fine.

However if you're doing it to ASCII you'll have to set up the codepage :

string sString = "<some japanese>";

// get the encoding specifying a code page.
Encoding asciiJapanese = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.GetEncoding(932);
byte [] abData = ascciiJapanese.GetBytes(sString);

932 is the code page for Japanese.

Darwen.