Convert String to Byte

[sbelgium]

Hey,
I want to make a hashcode for a String.

What is have to do is convert the String to Byte.
I do the following:

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Dim ae As New ASCIIEncoding

Dim bericht As String = "test"
hash = sha1.ComputeHash(ae.GetBytes(bericht))
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I get the following error:
Value of type '1-dimensional array of Byte' cannot be converted to 'Byte'.


Can anyone help me?

 

[shatch]

When you declared your hash variable, did you create it as a byte array?

Dim hash() as byte

 

[shatch]

Addition: The following worked for me

Dim ae As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
Dim hash() As Byte
Dim bericht As String = "test"
hash = System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1.Create.ComputeHash(ae.GetBytes(bericht))

 

[sbelgium]

Thank you very mutch!

 

[chiph]

Note that the ASCIIEncoding class will fold every character value down to the ASCII range of 0..127

If you have high-bit ASCII (ANSI), or Unicode data, you'll want to use the UnicodeEncoding class.

Chip H.


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