C# equivalent of byte array

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In Java I have a byte array thus

byte[] request = {
				'e', // 'existence' ?
				'I', 'P', 'A', 'D', 0, // Include IP address
				'N', 'A', 'M', 'E', 0, // Include server name
				'J', 'S', 'O', 'N', 0, // Include server port
            };

But C# doesn't accept the zero terminator - any idea how to create an equivalent C# array ?

Posted 18-Jan-16 6:07am

pkfox

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jan-16 12:48pm

Note that characters are not bytes. Why not using array of char?
And why asking something like that about C#, instead of just learning it? If your knowledge of C# is that insufficient, answers won't help you anyway.
—SA

pkfox 18-Jan-16 12:57pm

Hi Sergey that's what I've tried and I'm not getting the expected result

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jan-16 14:38pm

Then please show what exactly have you tried?
—SA

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-18T06:18:00

Solution 1

Try:

C#

byte[] request = {
    (byte) 'e', // 'existence' ?
    (byte) 'I', (byte) 'P', (byte) 'A', (byte) 'D', 0, // Include IP address
    (byte) 'N', (byte) 'A', (byte) 'M', (byte) 'E', 0, // Include server name
    (byte) 'J', (byte) 'S', (byte) 'O', (byte) 'N', 0, // Include server port
};

Or more readably:

C#

byte[] request = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("eIPAD\0NAME\0JSON\0");

Posted 18-Jan-16 6:18am

OriginalGriff

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CPallini 18-Jan-16 16:17pm

5.

pkfox 19-Jan-16 4:32am

With a slight modification OG's solution worked I changed

byte[] request = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("eIPAD\0NAME\0JSON\0");
to

byte[] request = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("eIPAD\0NAME\0JSON\0");

and it worked ( i.e. I received the expected data )

OriginalGriff 19-Jan-16 4:45am

I was originally going to suggest ASCII, but Unicode is a bit more common these days! :laugh:
Glad you got it going though. :thumbsup: