conversions

[Chris Pat]

Hello
If I have my string in a byte[]
byte[] myString = "testString";
how do I print it out? I have tried myString.toString(), however that just gives me the pointer to the byte[] on the heap. How does this then work with the locale? tia.

[Jeff Albertson]

What is your encoding? Try using one of String's constructors:

String(byte[] bytes) //platform's default charset
String(byte[] bytes, String charsetName)
[ December 29, 2005: Message edited by: Jeff Albrechtsen ]

[Chris Pat]

Hi Jeff
Thanks. However it still in not working. I have created a list with below and I still get the same results

...
byte[] string0 = "ListString1".getBytes();
byte[] string1 = "ListString2".getBytes();
byte[] string2 = "ListString3".getBytes();
List list = new ArrayList();
list.add(string0);
list.add(string1);
list.add(string2);
...



...
boolean firstTime = true;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
if (firstTime) {
firstTime = false;
} else {
buffer1.append(',');
}
byte[] element = (byte[]) value_.get(i);
buffer.append("A ");
System.out.println("tempChar= "+new String(element.toString()));
buffer.append(new String(element.toString()));
}
buffer1.append('}');
return buffer1.toString();
...

[Jeff Albertson]

Maybe it's time to step back. That code you posted was really torturing strings! What are you trying to do, what is your goal? What do you need byte[]'s? What aren't you working solely with Strings?