C#

jschell wrote:

One advantage to C++ (and C) is that you can force a string to be treated as a numeric. So a value like "ABCD" can be cast directly to a 32 bit unsigned integer. And of course you could use 64 bit also.

ReadOnlySpan<char> input = "ABCD"; // For .NET Framework / Standard 2.0, you'll need to add ".AsSpan()" here.
ReadOnlySpan<byte> bytes = System.Runtime.InteropServices.MemoryMarshal.AsBytes(input);
int value = System.Runtime.InteropServices.MemoryMarshal.Read<int>(bytes);
// value == 4325441

Richard Deeming wrote:

C#

ReadOnlySpan<char> input = "ABCD"; 
ReadOnlySpan<byte> bytes = System.Runtime.InteropServices.MemoryMarshal.AsBytes(input);
int value = System.Runtime.InteropServices.MemoryMarshal.Read<int>(bytes);

jschell wrote:

So a value like "ABCD" can be cast directly to a 32 bit unsigned integer.

ReadOnlySpan<byte> bytes = "ABCD"u8;
int value = System.Runtime.InteropServices.MemoryMarshal.Read<int>(bytes);
// 0x44434241

ReadOnlySpan<byte> bytes = "ABCD"u8;

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