ASCIIEncoding.GetString Method (Byte[], Int32, Int32)

Data to be converted, such as data read from a stream, can be available only in sequential blocks. In this case, or if the amount of data is so large that it needs to be divided into smaller blocks, the application should use the Decoder or the Encoder provided by the GetDecoder method or the GetEncoder method, respectively.

ASCIIEncoding does not provide error detection. Any byte greater than hexadecimal 0x7F is decoded as the Unicode question mark ("?").

Caution
For security reasons, your application is recommended to use UTF8Encoding, UnicodeEncoding, or UTF32Encoding and enable error detection.

The following example demonstrates how to use the GetString method to convert a byte array into a String.

using System;
using System.Text;

class ASCIIEncodingExample {
    public static void Main() {
        Byte[] bytes = new Byte[] {
             65,  83,  67,  73,  73,  32,  69,
            110,  99, 111, 100, 105, 110, 103,
             32,  69, 120,  97, 109, 112, 108, 101
        };

        ASCIIEncoding ascii = new ASCIIEncoding();
        String decoded = ascii.GetString(bytes);
        Console.WriteLine(decoded);
    }
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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