Stringification

What can be better than making byte arrays slightly more human readable!? We provide a number of ways to format a byte array that will hopefully meet your needs. Because byte[] doesn’t implement IFormattable you have to be explicit about calling ByteArrayUtils.ToString and cannot rely on string interpolation or string.Format and the typical format provider.

public static string ByteArrayUtils.ToString(this byte[] bytes, string format = "g", IFormatProvider formatProvider = null)

Implemented format values

Implemented format values

Format	Name	Description	Example
g (default), G, H, or empty string	General Format Hexadecimal (base 16) bytes	Formats as uppercase hexadecimal digits with individual bytes delimited by a single space character	C0 FF EE C0 DE
HC	Uppercase Hexadecimal (base 16) bytes Contiguous	Formats bytes as uppercase contiguous hexadecimal digits	C0FFEEC0DE
h	Lowercase Hexadecimal (base 16) bytes	Formats bytes as lowercase hexadecimal digits with individual bytes delimited by a single space character	c0 ff ee c0 de
hc	Lowercase Hexadecimal (base 16) bytes Contiguous	Formats bytes as lowercase contiguous hexadecimal digits	c0ffeec0de
b, or B	Binary (base 2) bytes	Formats bytes as binary digits with individual bytes delimited by a single space character	11000000 11111111 11101110 11000000 11011110
bc, or BC	Binary (base 2) bytes Contiguous	Formats bytes as contiguous binary digits	1100000011111111111011101100000011011110
d, or D	Decimal (base 10) bytes	Formats bytes as decimal (base 10) digits with individual bytes delimited by a single space character	192 255 238 192 222
I, or IBE	Integer (Big Endian)	Formats bytes as big endian unsigned decimal (base 10) integer	828927557854
ILE	Integer (Little Endian)	Formats bytes as little endian unsigned decimal (base 10) integer	956719628224

Stringification Example

public static void StringificationExample()
{
   // Setup
   var input = new byte[] { 0xC0, 0xFF, 0xEE, 0xC0, 0xDE };

   // Conclusion
   Console.WriteLine("Stringification Example");
   Console.WriteLine($"input:\t{input.ToString("H")}");

   Console.WriteLine("Hexadecimal Formats");
   Console.WriteLine($"H:\t\"{input.ToString("H")}\"");
   Console.WriteLine($"h:\t\"{input.ToString("h")}\"");
   Console.WriteLine($"HC:\t\"{input.ToString("HC")}\"");
   Console.WriteLine($"hc:\t\"{input.ToString("hc")}\"");

   Console.WriteLine("Binary Formats");
   Console.WriteLine($"b:\t\"{input.ToString("b")}\"");
   Console.WriteLine($"bc:\t\"{input.ToString("bc")}\"");

   Console.WriteLine("Integer Formats");
   Console.WriteLine($"d:\t\"{input.ToString("d")}\"");
   Console.WriteLine($"IBE:\t\"{input.ToString("IBE")}\"");
   Console.WriteLine($"ILE:\t\"{input.ToString("ILE")}\"");

   Console.WriteLine(string.Empty);
}

Stringification Example
input:  C0 FF EE C0 DE
Hexadecimal Formats
H:      "C0 FF EE C0 DE"
h:      "c0 ff ee c0 de"
HC:     "C0FFEEC0DE"
hc:     "c0ffeec0de"
Binary Formats
b:      "11000000 11111111 11101110 11000000 11011110"
bc:     "1100000011111111111011101100000011011110"
Integer Formats
d:      "192 255 238 192 222"
IBE:    "828927557854"
ILE:    "956719628224"