Convert string to byte []

Question

How to convert string to byte [] in C #?

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n3wb13 Apr 14 '11 at 0:12

2 answers

Mark cidade · Answer 1 · 2011-04-14T00:13:48+0000

Note that .NET strings are encoded as Unicode (UTF-16):

byte[] bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("a string");

Teoman soygul · Answer 2 · 2011-04-14T00:14:35+0000

using byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myString);