Question

I am reading information from a device and it’s returning data to me in integer format and I need to convert this to ASCII characters using C#.

The following is an example of the data I have to convert. I receive the integer value 26990 back from my device and I need to convert that to ASCII. I just happen to know that for this value, the desired result would be “ni”.

I know that the integer value 26990 is equal to 696e in hex, and 110100101101110 in binary, but would like to know how to do the conversion as I can’t work it out for myself.

Can anyone help please?

Many thanks,

Karl

Answer 1

int i = 26990;
char c1 = (char)(i & 0xff);
char c2 = (char)(i >> 8);

Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}", c1, c2);