Encoding.GetBytes Method (Char*, Int32, Byte*, Int32)
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
[CLSCompliantAttribute(false)] [ComVisibleAttribute(false)] public: virtual int GetBytes ( wchar_t* chars, int charCount, unsigned char* bytes, int byteCount )
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Parameters
- chars
A pointer to the first character to encode.
- charCount
The number of characters to encode.
- bytes
A pointer to the location at which to start writing the resulting sequence of bytes.
- byteCount
The maximum number of bytes to write.
Return Value
The actual number of bytes written at the location indicated by the bytes parameter.To calculate the exact array size that GetBytes requires to store the resulting bytes, use GetByteCount. To calculate the maximum array size, use GetMaxByteCount. The GetByteCount method generally allows you to allocate less memory, whereas the GetMaxByteCount method generally executes faster.
If the data to be converted is available only in sequential blocks (such as data read from a stream) or if the amount of data is so large that it needs to be divided into smaller blocks, use the Decoder or the Encoder object provided by the GetDecoder or the GetEncoder method, respectively, of a derived class.
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