Thansform an array of ASCII bytes to a string. the byte array should contains only values in [0, 127]. : Character Data Type « Data Type « Java Tutorial

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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

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/**
 * Various string manipulation methods that are more efficient then chaining
 * string operations: all is done in the same buffer without creating a bunch of
 * string objects.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@labs.apache.org">Dungeon Project</a>
 */
public class Main {

  /**
   * Thansform an array of ASCII bytes to a string. the byte array should contains
   * only values in [0, 127].
   * 
   * @param bytes The byte array to transform
   * @return The resulting string
   */
  public static String asciiBytesToString( byte[] bytes )
  {
      if ( (bytes == null) || (bytes.length == 0 ) )
      {
          return "";
      }
      
      char[] result = new char[bytes.length];
      
      for ( int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++ )
      {
          result[i] = (char)bytes[i];
      }
      
      return new String( result );
  }

}