Re: converting byte array to a String

From:
"Karl Uppiano" <karl.uppiano@verizon.net>
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Date:
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:06:27 GMT
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"Karl Uppiano" <karl.uppiano@verizon.net> wrote in message
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"lrantisi" <lrantisi@gmail.com> wrote in message
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What's the best and fastest way to convert a byte array to a String.
The (toString doesn't work, it gives strange characters).

I prefere a way that uses a loop that loops in the bytes of the array
and convert them to characters then append them to a string.

Thanks.


How about one of the variants of this, which allows you to specify a
character set encoding?

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#String(byte[],%20java.lang.String)


That URL was supposed to take you to this String constructor:

public String(byte[] bytes, String charsetName)
       throws UnsupportedEncodingException

The charsetName tells the constructor how to interpret the bytes in the byte
array -- they could be UTF-8, ASCII, EBCDIC, or Swahili, which explains the
strange characters you get from toString, which just uses the default
encoding for your platform.

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