Byte Buffer To String

Question

Reading a Byte buffer:

while (...)
{
    builder.Append(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, index, 1));
    ++index;
}

I'm getting the following result: "20202020202020202020202057363253304b4358", which looks like ASCII or HTML character codes. What is the best and faster way to obtain the real string out of that value in C#?

How did you obtain the values in buffer to start with? A short but complete example would be really helpful here. (Additionally, you shouldn't need to append a single character at a time...) — Jon Skeet
– Jon Skeet, Commented May 7, 2013 at 16:59
The buffer is a result of a DeviceIoControl call, that's why I didn't provide any example, code was veeeery long and quite pointless. Looks like the string is somehow flipped and encoded though. — Tommaso Belluzzo
– Tommaso Belluzzo, Commented May 7, 2013 at 17:10

I4V · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-07 17:38:02Z

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Although I think there is something wrong in your code while getting that string, anyway, you can use

byte[] buf = SoapHexBinary.Parse("20202020202020202020202057363253304b4358").Value;
var str = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf);

which would return W62S0KCX

PS: SoapHexBinary is in wellknown System.Runtime.Remoting.Metadata.W3cXsd2001 namespace :)

edited May 7, 2013 at 17:38

answered May 7, 2013 at 17:32

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Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-17 07:41:24Z

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If you have the entire buffer available already, then simply try:

var myString = Encoding.Default.GetString(byteBuffer);

edited May 17, 2015 at 7:41

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