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Text.EncodeToBytes

Encode a byte string.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Text 3.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "Text.EncodeToBytes"; text { ; Encoding } )   More

(old name: String.EncodeToBytes)

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
text The text to process. "Hello World"
Encoding The text encoding for text parameter.
Default is native.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.
"UTF-8" Optional

Result

Returns encoded text.

Description

Encode a byte string.
Please check what text encoding you want to use. Especially what the software processing the hex string expects.
A byte string here is a text string with byte numbers like this: "65 66 67" which as text would be "ABC".

Examples

Encode bytes as UTF-8:

MBS( "Text.EncodeToBytes"; "Hello World"; "utf8" )

Example result: "72 101 108 108 111 32 87 111 114 108 100"

See also

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016


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