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Article #14Converting bytes to a numeric value
From: Ron Sawyer
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:52
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:52
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I am reading 4 bytes from a socket into a byte array - and then need to convert those four bytes into a integer. right now, I read the bytes into a byte array, convert the byte array to a string, then convert the string to an int. There MUST be a better way. In C/C++ I would simply do a memcpy, (roughly) like this: Stream.Read(ByteArray, 0, 6); memcpy(&LocalInteger, ByteArray, 4); (Assuming that the stream had been set up and the array and the int and assuming that there were no endian issues.) I might even do this: Stream.Read(&LocalInteger, 0, 6); So, how is this done is c# (I'm hating being a newbie again! :-) ) Speaking of endian issues, are there functions for swapping byte order?
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