C# BitConverter ToString(Byte[])

Description

BitConverter ToString(Byte[]) converts the numeric value of each element of a specified array of bytes to its equivalent hexadecimal string representation.

Syntax

BitConverter.ToString(Byte[]) has the following syntax.

public static string ToString(
  byte[] value
)

Parameters

BitConverter.ToString(Byte[]) has the following parameters.

• value - An array of bytes.

Returns

BitConverter.ToString(Byte[]) method returns A string of hexadecimal pairs separated by hyphens, where each pair represents the corresponding element in value; for example, "7F-2C-4A-00".

Example

The following code example converts Byte arrays to String objects with the ToString method.

using System;/*from  ww w .  j a v a 2 s  .c o m*/

class BytesToStringDemo
{
    public static void Main( )
    {
        byte[ ] bytes = {
             0,   1,   2,   4,   8,  16,  32,  64, 128, 255 };
        Console.WriteLine( BitConverter.ToString( bytes ) );
        
    }
}

The code above generates the following result.