I found this code snippet on a blog as a "Convert Binary data to text"
Byte[] arrByte = {0,0,0,1,0,1};
string x = Convert.ToBase64String(arrByte);
System: Console.WriteLine(x);
And this provides a output of AAAAAQAB ..
What is not clear is that how 000101 -> is mapped to AAAAAQAB, and will I able to use this to all a-z characters as a binary equivalent and how? or is there a any other method ?
Actually 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001 is mapped to AAAAAQAB because base64 uses 6 bits per letter so:
000000 = A (0)
000000 = A
000000 = A
000000 = A
000000 = A
010000 = Q (16)
000000 = A
000001 = B (1)
See this Wikipedia article for more details.
000000 (0) what C will be ? what will Z will be lyc that ?The method you are using, ToBase64String is the following. (from wiki)
Base64 is a group of similar encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation. The Base64 term originates from a specific MIME content transfer encoding.
To use a string as a byte[] or the other way you can use Encoding
Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
So
72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100
is equals to
Hello World
To bytes and from bytes:
var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello world");
var str = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
