Generates a string through an array of bytes.

1 string.fromBytes

Release 2017.2

Tag available since version 2017.2.

<string.fromBytes encoding='encoding'>
    <ByteArray /> +
</string.fromBytes>

Attributes
Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
Aencoding	string				Coding of the argument.

Arguments
Name	Type	Required	Unique	Nullable	Description
EByteArray	string				Array of bytes to convert.

Returns
Type	Description
byte[]	Array with the bytes of the text.

Example

Example:

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<xsql-script>
    <body>
        <set name='message'>áéíóú</set>
        <println>MESSAGE: <message /></println>

        <assert.equals>
            <integer>5</integer>
            <byte.length>
                <string.fromBytes encoding='ascii'>aeiou</string.fromBytes>
            </byte.length>
        </assert.equals>

        <assert.equals>
            <integer>10</integer>
            <byte.length>
                <string.fromBytes encoding='utf-8'>áéíóú</string.fromBytes>
            </byte.length>
        </assert.equals>

        <assert.equals>
            <integer>10</integer>
            <byte.length>
                <string.fromBytes encoding='utf-8'><message /></string.fromBytes>
            </byte.length>
        </assert.equals>


        <set name='message'>secret message: áéíóú</set>
        <set name='messagebytes'><string.fromBytes encoding='utf-8'><message /></string.fromBytes></set>

        <assert.equals>
            <message />
            <string.fromBytes encoding='utf-8'><messagebytes /></string.fromBytes>
        </assert.equals>
    </body>
</xsql-script>

MESSAGE: áéíóú