>Try http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=4461
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>>Hi All, just messing around - not a work thing - if I have a string of binary digits such as
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>>string s = "0101000001000101010101000100010101010010"
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>>how do I convert it to text ?, all the Convert.* methods I've looked at require a byte[] array as an arg and I don't know how to create one !

Hi Neil, I wanted a c# solution but ! this is what I've tried so far - the binary string s1 represents "PETER"

// if I do this
UTF8Encoding enc = new UTF8Encoding;
string s1 = "0101000001000101010101000100010101010010";

byte[] b = enc.GetBytes(s1);
string s2 = Convert.ToBase64String(b);

// The contents of s2 is "MDEwMTA...and so on" and 60 chars in length.

any ideas ?