Question

I have a byte[] array that is loaded from a file that I happen to known contains UTF-8.

In some debugging code, I need to convert it to a string. Is there a one-liner that will do this?

Under the covers it should be just an allocation and a memcopy, so even if it is not implemented, it should be possible.

Answer 1

string result = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(byteArray);

or one of the overload if you know the length:

string result = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(byteArray, 0, 42);