Question

Hi i was able to convert a ASCII string to binary using a binarywriter .. as 10101011 . im required back to convert Binary —> ASCII string .. any idea how to do it ?

Answer 1

This should do the trick… or at least get you started…

public Byte[] GetBytesFromBinaryString(String binary)
{
  var list = new List<Byte>();

  for (int i = 0; i < binary.Length; i += 8)
  {
    String t = binary.Substring(i, 8);

    list.Add(Convert.ToByte(t, 2));
  }

  return list.ToArray();
}

Once the binary string has been converted to a byte array, finish off with

Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data);

So…

var data = GetBytesFromBinaryString("010000010100001001000011");
var text = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data);