[2.0] string to byte array?

[high6]

haven't used C# in a long time and forgot how to convert a string to a bytearray. Anyone got a function to do it?

[penagate]

(new System.Text.Encoding.UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(mystring)

[high6]

Also is there a multiline function for strings?

Like lua(scripting langauge) you could do

local multilinestring = [[this
is
a
multi line string]]

[penagate]

no, but you can put \n in a string for a new line.

[high6]

(new System.Text.Encoding.UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(mystring)

That didnt work. UTF8Encoding() doesnt exist.

[penagate]

System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(mystring)

[high6]

Now is there an easy way to use " in strings?

[penagate]

"\""

[high6]

"\""

Are there special quotes like in lua you can do [["anything in here"]] because it would take too long to add all those \ before the quotes.

[penagate]

well, C# isn't lua.

Long string literals are a bad idea anyway, if you want long strings with quotes then put them in a resource file and load from there.

Also for paths, regular expressions and other things that contain lots of backslash characters you can prepend @ to disable escape sequence parsing so you don't have to escape \ as \\.

string file_path = @"C:\blah\thing";

[high6]

Now also i got a number as a string and am wondering how do i convert it to a number?

[jmcilhinney]

Now also i got a number as a string and am wondering how do i convert it to a number?

Use the Parse or TryParse method of the type you want to convert the string to. If you know for sure that the string represents a valid number then use the Parse method. If there's a chance that it may not be valid, like if it's been entered by the user in a TextBox, then use the TryParse method.