koobas.hobune.stream
Writing to files in bytes.
If I have a string that looks like your standard byte, for example: "01001100", can I write this to a file and have it use just one byte? As opposed to the 8 it would normally take up if I use the normal StreamWriter method or something similar.
Do you have a string or a stream?
If I have a string that looks like your standard byte, for example: "01001100"
I've never heard of anyone reading the 1's and 0's in a string into bits of data, but I'm not saying it couldn't be done. $$anonymous$$ost people would just Serialize() the data or something similar to that.
Hmm I think my problem is that I don't really know anything about serializing, streams of how data is really stored... Could you point my in the direction of some good documents that can explain how it all works?
Here's the .Net page on serialization. It's a fairly thorough explanation that might help you some if you have a decent understanding of technical terms.
something like this might work:
byte value = 0;
int index = 0;
char[] cs = byteString.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0;i<cs.Length(),i++) {
if (cs[i]=='1') {
value += (1<< (8-i));
}
}
// now save that byte.
