Convert byte array to int

Question

I am trying to do some conversion in C#, and I am not sure how to do this:

private int byteArray2Int(byte[] bytes)
{
    // bytes = new byte[] {0x01, 0x03, 0         


        

Answer 1

BitConverter is the correct approach.

Your problem is because you only provided 8 bits when you promised 32. Try instead a valid 32-bit number in the array, such as new byte[] { 0x32, 0, 0, 0 }.

If you want an arbitrary length array converted, you can implement this yourself:

ulong ConvertLittleEndian(byte[] array)
{
    int pos = 0;
    ulong result = 0;
    foreach (byte by in array) {
        result |= ((ulong)by) << pos;
        pos += 8;
    }
    return result;
}

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It's not clear what the second part of your question (involving strings) is supposed to produce, but I guess you want hex digits? BitConverter can help with that too, as described in an earlier question.