Getting bytes from a string

[Chris Leffer]

Hi.

My application has a textbox that can receive a lengthful string from
the user. I need to separate this string into blocks of 50 bytes and
process each block to compose a text file. I have the majority of the
routine ready, but how can I divide the string into blocks of 50 bytes?

Regards,
Chris Leffer

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

My application has a textbox that can receive a lengthful string from
the user. I need to separate this string into blocks of 50 bytes and
process each block to compose a text file. I have the majority of the
routine ready, but how can I divide the string into blocks of 50 bytes?

'System.Text.Encoding.<encoding name>.GetBytes'.

 

[Chris Leffer]

Hi Herfried!

Thanks, the GetBytes method works ok. But it takes each character as an
element of the array. How can I tell it to get groups of 50 characters?

Regards,
Chris Leffer

 

[Stephany Young]

Just deal with the resulting array in chunks of 50 bytes. 0 to 49, 50 to 99
etc.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Chris,

You know that a character is unicode which exist in 2 bytes.

Maybe are you just looking for this.

String.indexof(0,50)
string.indexof(50,50)
etc
or the
Mid statement

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Thanks, the GetBytes method works ok. But it takes each character as an
element of the array. How can I tell it to get groups of 50 characters?

In addition to the other replies note that 1 character <> 1 byte.