Question

Is there a way, where i can avoid the ‘\’ character from a string ?

//bit array
    BitArray b1 = new BitArray(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("10101010"));
    BitArray b2 = new BitArray(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("10101010"));

    //Say i perform XOR operation on this 
    b1 = b1.Xor(b2);

    //After the XOR oper the b1 var holds the result 
    //but i want the result to be displayed as 00000000

    //So i convert the bitarray to a byte[] and then to string 
    byte[] bResult = ToByteArray(b1);
    strOutput  = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bResult);

Output

    The string strOutput is = "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" 
    But the desired output is 00000000

where ToByteArray could be a simple method as this

public static byte[] ToByteArray(BitArray bits)
        {
             byte[] ret = new byte[bits.Length / 8];
             bits.CopyTo(ret, 0);
             return ret;
        }

Alternative 1 : i can ignore the ‘\’ character using regular expressions or string.replace

But is there any other better way to handle such scenarios ?

Answer 1

You cant just manipulate values inside a binary row.Instead,as you’ve given alternatives,use regular expressions or string replace function to get your designated result set.

For example:
By calling an extra method to your code

    byte[] bResult = ToByteArray(b1);
    strOutput  = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bResult).Replace("\\\"","");

EDIT:

I believe in your case normally my answer would work,
BUT

0 '\0'

is also in ASCII character set(only in 0),that means you’re given the same string \0\0\0\0 .. replacing with backslash character (\)

CALL Replace("\0","0")