C# convert string into its byte[] equivalent

Question

At this point most people will be thinking \"Ah ill post this..:\"

byte[] dataB= System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);

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Answer 1

//convert a string to a byte array

public static byte[] StrToByteArray(string str)
{
    System.Text.UTF8Encoding  encoding=new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
    return encoding.GetBytes(str);
}

//convert a byte array to a string

public string ByteArrayToStr(byte [] dBytes)
{
System.Text.UTF8Encoding enc = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
return enc.GetString(dBytes);
}