Source:

UTF8Encoding.cs

Source:

UTF8Encoding.cs

Source:

UTF8Encoding.cs

Source:

UTF8Encoding.cs

Source:

UTF8Encoding.cs

public:
 override int GetBytes(System::String ^ s, int charIndex, int charCount, cli::array <System::Byte> ^ bytes, int byteIndex);

public override int GetBytes(string s, int charIndex, int charCount, byte[] bytes, int byteIndex);

override this.GetBytes : string * int * int * byte[] * int -> int

Public Overrides Function GetBytes (s As String, charIndex As Integer, charCount As Integer, bytes As Byte(), byteIndex As Integer) As Integer

Parameters

Returns

The actual number of bytes written into bytes.

Exceptions

Examples

The following example uses the GetBytes method to encode a range of elements from a Unicode character array and store the encoded bytes in a range of elements in a byte array.

using System;
using System.Text;
class UTF8EncodingExample {
    public static void Main() {
        Byte[] bytes;
        // Unicode characters.
        Char[] chars = new Char[] {
            '\u0023', // #
            '\u0025', // %
            '\u03a0', // Pi
            '\u03a3'  // Sigma
        };
        UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding();
        int byteCount = utf8.GetByteCount(chars, 1, 2);
        bytes = new Byte[byteCount];
        int bytesEncodedCount = utf8.GetBytes(chars, 1, 2, bytes, 0);
        Console.WriteLine(
            "{0} bytes used to encode characters.", bytesEncodedCount
        );
        Console.Write("Encoded bytes: ");
        foreach (Byte b in bytes) {
            Console.Write("[{0}]", b);
        }
        Console.WriteLine();
    }
}

Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings
Class UTF8EncodingExample
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim bytes() As Byte
        ' Unicode characters.
        ' ChrW(35)  = #
        ' ChrW(37)  = %
        ' ChrW(928) = Pi
        ' ChrW(931) = Sigma
        Dim chars() As Char = {ChrW(35), ChrW(37), ChrW(928), ChrW(931)}
        Dim utf8 As New UTF8Encoding()
        Dim byteCount As Integer = utf8.GetByteCount(chars, 1, 2)
        bytes = New Byte(byteCount - 1) {}
        Dim bytesEncodedCount As Integer = utf8.GetBytes(chars, 1, 2, bytes, 0)
        Console.WriteLine("{0} bytes used to encode characters.", bytesEncodedCount)
        Console.Write("Encoded bytes: ")
        Dim b As Byte
        For Each b In  bytes
            Console.Write("[{0}]", b)
        Next b
        Console.WriteLine()
    End Sub
End Class

Remarks

To calculate the exact array size required by GetBytes to store the resulting bytes, you call the GetByteCount method. To calculate the maximum array size, you call the GetMaxByteCount method. The GetByteCount method generally allocates less memory, while the GetMaxByteCount method generally executes faster.

With error detection, an invalid sequence causes this method to throw an ArgumentException exception. Without error detection, invalid sequences are ignored, and no exception is thrown.

Data to be converted, such as data read from a stream, might be available only in sequential blocks. In this case, or if the amount of data is so large that it needs to be divided into smaller blocks, use the Decoder or the Encoder provided by the GetDecoder method or the GetEncoder method, respectively.

To ensure that the encoded bytes are decoded properly when they are saved as a file or as a stream, you can prefix a stream of encoded bytes with a preamble. Inserting the preamble at the beginning of a byte stream (such as at the beginning of a series of bytes to be written to a file) is the developer's responsibility. The GetBytes method does not prepend a preamble to the beginning of a sequence of encoded bytes.

See also

• GetEncoder()
• GetByteCount(Char[], Int32, Int32)
• GetMaxByteCount(Int32)