Convert Binary file to Ascii and vice versa

Convert Binary file to Ascii and vice versa

• MShetty

  You cannot convert binary data directly to ASCII these days, ASCII can only represent character codes between 0 and 127. A common workaround is to use Convert.ToBase64String to convert binary data into a Base64 encoding string that only uses ASCII characters...
  
  
  

• dariodario

  Hi,

  You can write strings to binary and read binary to string as follows:

  // ASCII Content
  string ContentOfTheFile = "This is a sample text prepared for ysrini!";
  long MoreContent = 5000;

  // We write the binary file
  using (FileStream TargetFile = new FileStream("C:\\Test.bin", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
  {

  BinaryWriter MyWriter = new BinaryWriter(TargetFile);
  MyWriter.Write(ContentOfTheFile); // as string
  MyWriter.Write(MoreContent); // as binary

  }

  // Read the binary into a string
  using (FileStream ReadFile = new FileStream("C:\\Test.bin", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
  {
  BinaryReader MyReader = new BinaryReader(ReadFile);
  string ReadContent = MyReader.ReadString();
  long ReadCharContent = MyReader.ReadInt64();

  Debug.WriteLine("Your string content: " + ReadContent + " and number " + ReadCharContent.ToString());

  }

  Hope this helps

  Cheers

  
  
  
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