Ok, before anyone attempts to label this as a duplicate, I am not asking for a string to a byte array. I want a string array, containing something similar like this: {"5","168","188","28","29","155"} to be converted to a byte array. I have searched, and was only able to find string to byte array, which is quite different. Thanks.
Edit: the array will be preset so that each member is parsable through byte.Parse, so this is not an issue.
This will fail for anything that can't be parsed by byte.Parse
var str = new[] {"5", "168", "188", "28", "29", "155"};
var byt = str.Select(byte.Parse).ToArray();
You have to parse each string into a byte and put in a new array. You can just loop though the items and convert each one:
string[] strings = { "5", "168", "188", "28", "29", "155" };
byte[] bytes = new byte[strings.length];
for (int i = 0; i < strings.Length; i++) {
bytes[i] = Byte.Parse(strings[i]);
}
You can also use the Array.ConvertAll method for this:
string[] strings = { "5", "168", "188", "28", "29", "155" };
byte[] bytes = Array.ConvertAll(strings, Byte.Parse);
You can also use LINQ extensions to do it:
string[] strings = { "5", "168", "188", "28", "29", "155" };
bytes = strings.Select(Byte.Parse).ToArray();
Assuming you mean that you have a string array like string[] myArray = {"5","168",...};:
myArray.Select(x => byte.Parse(x)).ToArray();
Or:
myArray.Select(byte.Parse).ToArray();
Try this
With linq
string[] strings = new[] { "1", "2", "3", "4" };
byte[] byteArray = strings.Select(x => byte.Parse(x)).ToArray();
Without linq
string[] strings = { "1", "2", "3", "4" };
byte[] bytArr = new byte[strings.Length];
int i = 0;
foreach(String text in strings)
{
bytArr[i++] = byte.Parse(text);
}
new string[] {"5","168","188"}or a string containing an array like syntax, like"[5,168,188]"?