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Fer
Fer

Reputation: 1992

custom encode ascii chars between 0-31 in C#


i read some data from a device. Then i send this data to a web server via xml. The data should be represented in xml so this makes me convert characters between 0-31 because these chars can not be displayed on xml.
The question is how can i convert the chars between 0-31 decimal in a string like [00]abcde[01]fgh[02]...
Are there any built-in function in .net framework or any accepted pattern?
Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 392

Answers (2)

Rune FS
Rune FS

Reputation: 21752

You can simply encode the number as an XML entity you write &# followed by the number and a semicolon

so 1 becomes  and 13 becomes 
 and so on and so forth

However as noted by dan04 you can't represent 0 as a numeric character reference, so in the case where your data might include 0 you will have to use a different encoding. You could encode the entire binary data as base64

Most XML toolboxes will do the encoding to NCRs for you though so you really shouldn't have to worry about that

Upvotes: 2

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888293

You should use standard XML encoding:



Your XML API will do that for you, so you don't need to worry about anything.

Upvotes: 6

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