What is the difference between byte[] and char[]?
Differentiate more from usage perspective. Can they be used interchangeably?
What is the difference between byte[] and char[]? Differentiate more from usage perspective. Can
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What is the difference between byte[] and char[]?
Differentiate more from usage perspective. Can they be used interchangeably?
byterepresents a byte. It is always 8-bits wide.charrepresents a unicode character, and thus is two bytes (i.e. 16 bits) wide. Usebyte[]if you’re dealing with raw bytes, andchar[](or better yetstring) if you’re dealing with strings.