{"id":1629,"date":"2015-03-24T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codingexplained.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2017-06-11T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T17:36:07","slug":"convert-byte-array-to-string-in-c-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codingexplained.com\/coding\/csharp\/convert-byte-array-to-string-in-c-sharp","title":{"rendered":"Convert Byte Array to String in C#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Converting a byte array to a string\u00a0in C# is easy. In fact, it can be done in a single line. Below is an example that converts a string into a byte array. In the example that follows, we will then convert that byte array back to a string, effectively showing you how to do the conversion both ways.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"cs\">string stringToConvert = &quot;This will be converted into a byte array and back&quot;;\r\nbyte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(stringToConvert);<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Now if we want to do the conversion in the other direction, that is from a byte array to a string, then this can simply be done as follows.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"cs\">string converted = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>As you can see, C# makes it very easy to convert strings to and from byte arrays. I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converting a byte array to a string\u00a0in C# is easy. In fact, it can be done in a single line. Below is an example that converts a string into a byte array. 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