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Ann
Ann

Reputation: 703

Convert string element to byte

I am trying to convert a string into a byte array. When I look at individual elements of the The byte array I get unexpected results. For example, when I look at the first element, which was "F", I expect it to be converted to 15, but instead I get 102. Is there an error here? 

 Console.WriteLine("string[0] = " + string[0]);
 Byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string);
 Console.WriteLine("data[0] = " + data[0]);

 string[0] = f
 data[0] = 102

Upvotes: 2

Views: 224

Answers (4)

Sudhakar Tillapudi
Sudhakar Tillapudi

Reputation: 26219

your expectation is wrong , your code is working fine, Decimal value for lower case 'f' is 102.

Upvotes: 0

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 45809

Are you expecting 15 because you've looked at something like asciitable.com and seen that the Hex decimal value for the HEX value 'F' is 15?

The decimal value for 'f' is 102 (it's part way down the fourth column in the linked page).

Upvotes: 2

David Arno
David Arno

Reputation: 43264

Lower case f is 102. Upper case F is 70. Please check http://www.asciitable.com

When you say you were expecting 15, my guess is you saw F in the hex column...

Upvotes: 2

Hans Kesting
Hans Kesting

Reputation: 39358

That ASCII.GetBytes returns the ASCII codes of the characters. It would happily accept a string "z{}".

I guess you want to convert a hexadecimal string to the integer value. You need Int32.Parse for that, with the NumberStyles parameter set to NumberStyles.HexNumber.

string s = "1F";
int val = Int32.Parse(s, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);

val would now be 31.

Upvotes: 4

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