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Object-oriented Programming in C#
Input and Output Classes
The class Encoding

An encoding is a mapping between characters/strings and byte arrays

An object of class System.Text.Encoding represents knowledge about a particular character encoding

 

  • byte[] GetBytes(string)       Instance method

  • byte[] GetBytes(char[])       Instance method

    • Encodes a string/char array to a byte array relative to the current encoding

  • char[] GetChars(byte[])       Instance method

    • Decodes a byte array to a char array relative to the current encoding

  • byte[] Convert(Encoding, Encoding, byte[])       Static method

    • Converts a byte array from one encoding (first parameter) to another encoding (second parameter)