>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 !

Pete,

I'm not sure whether it's the best way to go , and I have not tested it either, but

(1) initialize a BitArray
(2) loop throught the string and assign the elements of the bitArray depending on 0 or 1
(3) initialize a Byte array
(4) I see that the BitARray has a CopyTo method wich accepts a Byte array
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.bitarray.copyto.aspx


Alternatively, you can directly create a byte array and loop through the string

if( string[stringindex] == '1' ) {
	the byte index = stringIndex / 8
	the bit to set =  7 - (stringIndex %8),

	// you may have to cast the right hand side to (byte)

	byteArray[ stringIndex / 8] |= ( 1 <<  (  7 - (stringIndex %8)))

	or maybe due to widening
	byteArray[ stringIndex / 8]  = (byte)( byteArray[ stringIndex / 8]  | byteArray[ stringIndex / 8] | ( 1 <<  (  7 - (stringIndex %8))))
}