Convert.ToChar issue...

I need to convert an array of bytes to a string, but without using Unicode. Just ASCII (base 10 maybe).. so how can I do this? Here's my code, but this spits out a string of unicode characters representing the array, instead of the raw ASCII characters I need.

VB Code:

Public Shared Function ConvertHashToAscii(ByVal hash() As Byte) As String
 
        Dim sb As New StringBuilder
        Dim number As Byte
 
        For Each number In hash
            sb.Append(Convert.ToChar(number))
        Next
 
        Return sb.ToString
 
    End Function

Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
KT

Hi.

Try this instead :

VB Code:

Public Shared Function ConvertHashToAscii(ByVal hash() As Byte) As String
 
        Dim sb As New StringBuilder
        Dim number As Byte
 
        For Each number In hash
            sb.Append(Chr(number)) 'Chr should use ASCii and NOT unicode.
        Next
 
        Return sb.ToString
 
    End Function

VB Code:

Public Shared Function ConvertHashToAscii(ByVal hash() As Byte) As String
        Return New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding().GetString(hash)
    End Function