How to convert a byte() to string

[Dean Slindee]

I have a timestamp field that I would like to display in a textbox. The
timestamp is an 8 byte array. Can this be converted to a string in one
statement or does it require cycling thru one byte at a time.

Thanks,
Dean Slindee

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Dean,

You can use the "encoding" class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ef/html/frlrfsystemtextencodingclasstopic.asp

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Terry Olsen]

str = system.text.encoding.ascii.GetString(byt())

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Dean,
If this is SQL Server's TimeStamp, I would not recommend
System.Text.Encoding as the Encoding class assumes you have valid characters
in it. I understand SQL Server's TimeStamp is closer to an Int64.

I would probably use BitConverter.ToString:

Dim bytes() As Byte = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
Dim s As String = BitConverter.ToString(bytes)

Which unfortunately puts hyphens between the bytes. If you don't want the
hyphens, then I would use a Loop to convert each byte...

--
Hope this helps
Jay [MVP - Outlook]
T.S. Bradley - http://www.tsbradley.net


|I have a timestamp field that I would like to display in a textbox. The
| timestamp is an 8 byte array. Can this be converted to a string in one
| statement or does it require cycling thru one byte at a time.
|
| Thanks,
| Dean Slindee
|
|

 

[tomb]

Or you could just use Replace after converting the bytes.

Tom