Mega Code Archive
GetChars method decodes a range of elements in a byte array and store the result in a character array
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Imports System
Imports System.Text
Class MainClass
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim chars() As Char
Dim bytes() As Byte = {5, 0, 10, 0, 5, 0, 99, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 101, 0}
Dim uni As New UnicodeEncoding()
Dim charCount As Integer = uni.GetCharCount(bytes, 2, 8)
chars = New Char(charCount - 1) {}
Dim charsDecodedCount As Integer = uni.GetChars(bytes, 2, 8, chars, 0)
Console.WriteLine("{0} characters used to decode bytes.", charsDecodedCount)
Console.Write("Decoded chars: ")
Dim c As Char
For Each c In chars
Console.Write("[{0}]", c)
Next c
End Sub
End Class
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