I need to convert a Byte[] to a string which contain a binary number sequence. I cannot use Encoding because it just encodes bytes into characters!
For example, having this array:
new byte[] { 254, 1 };
I want this output:
"1111111000000001"
You can convert any numeric integer primitive to its binary representation as a string with Convert.ToString. Doing this for each byte in your array and concatenating the results is very easy with LINQ:
var input = new byte[] { 254 }; // put as many bytes as you want in here
var result = string.Concat(input.Select(b => Convert.ToString(b, 2)));
Update:
The code above will not produce a result having exactly 8 characters per input byte, and this will make it impossible to know what the input was just by looking at the result. To get exactly 8 chars per byte, a small change is needed:
var result = string.Concat(input.Select(b => Convert.ToString(b, 2).PadLeft(8, '0')));
string StringIWant = BitConverter.ToString(byteData);
But i suggest work with Encoding..
string System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(byte[])
EDIT: For like 10101011010
From @Quintin Robinson's answer;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in myByteArray)
sb.Append(b.ToString("X2"));
string hexString = sb.ToString();
FF-FF- ..... i think thats hexa .. do you know now to convert into binary 10101010Will BitConverter.ToString work for you?
byte[] bList = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
string s1 = BitConverter.ToString(bList);
string s2 = "";
foreach (byte b in bList)
{
s2 += b.ToString();
}
in this case s1 ="01-02-03-04-05"
and s2= "012345"
I don't really get what are you trying to achieve.
byte[]