Question

Well my question is simple and straightforward.

Is there any way we can use hex values like in c++?

I am going to write binary files, but for that i will have to define certain characters like this for example.

\x00\x00\x11\x22\x33\x00\x00

I would first need to convert stuff like this to a byte array, and then write it to a binary text file.

Thanks!

Answer 1

No, that’s a problem with modern compilers, like VB.NET’s. There is no one-to-one mapping between bytes and strings anymore when Unicode became the preferred way of handling text. Codepoints like 0x80 don’t have a corresponding character, it is going to get munched when you convert the string to bytes.

You’ll need to work with a Byte() array in your code. The exact equivalent for your example is:

    Dim data As Byte() = {&H0, &H0, &H11, &H22, &H33, &H0, &H0}