Convert dateTime components to hex then byte[]
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I'm having a tough time converting month, day, and year into hex then byte[]. I did an internet search and I'm not finding anything that is similar enough to provide the link to. This is what I have so far from before I realized I needed the hex, but I do need the 2-digit mo/day/yr before it's hex. I'm a little confused about converting to hex since I would normally take the number and use ToString("X"), but it doesn't seem to apply here since I'm applying the formatting to get it to the 2-digit month, for example.
DateTime mfg = DateTime.Now;
mfgDate_mo = new byte[mfg.ToString("MM").Length * sizeof(char)];//month
convertStringToByteArr(mfg.ToString("MM"), ref mfgDate_mo);
mfgDate_dy = new byte[mfg.ToString("dd").Length * sizeof(char)];//day
convertStringToByteArr(mfg.ToString("dd"), ref mfgDate_dy);
mfgDate_yr = new byte[mfg.ToString("yy").Length * sizeof(char)];//year
convertStringToByteArr(mfg.ToString("yy"), ref mfgDate_yr);//convert string to byte array, not taking encoding into account
private void convertStringToByteArr(String theString, ref byte[] theByteArr)
{
System.Buffer.BlockCopy(theString.ToCharArray(), 0, theByteArr, 0, theByteArr.Length);
}I'm sorry, but your description doesn't make much sense to me. I've read it a couple of times and I can't visualise what you are trying to do. Given an input of todays date, what are you expecting to see in the byte array? If you could illustrate this, then perhaps I can help.
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I'm sorry, but your description doesn't make much sense to me. I've read it a couple of times and I can't visualise what you are trying to do. Given an input of todays date, what are you expecting to see in the byte array? If you could illustrate this, then perhaps I can help.
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For example, today's date is 8/20/2012. I need to take the 8, represent it as 08, convert it to Hex which is still 08 for that one, then put it in a byte array. For the year, I need to take the 12, which is already 2 digits, then convert to hex, which is 0C, then put it in byte array.
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For example, today's date is 8/20/2012. I need to take the 8, represent it as 08, convert it to Hex which is still 08 for that one, then put it in a byte array. For the year, I need to take the 12, which is already 2 digits, then convert to hex, which is 0C, then put it in byte array.
So just use the following to convert:
private byte[] Convert(int datePart)
{
// First of all, convert the date part into hex.
string convertedPart = datePart.ToString("X2");
// Now, return the byte array for the part.
System.Text.UTF8Encoding enc = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
return enc.GetBytes(convertedPart);
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I'm having a tough time converting month, day, and year into hex then byte[]. I did an internet search and I'm not finding anything that is similar enough to provide the link to. This is what I have so far from before I realized I needed the hex, but I do need the 2-digit mo/day/yr before it's hex. I'm a little confused about converting to hex since I would normally take the number and use ToString("X"), but it doesn't seem to apply here since I'm applying the formatting to get it to the 2-digit month, for example.
DateTime mfg = DateTime.Now;
mfgDate_mo = new byte[mfg.ToString("MM").Length * sizeof(char)];//month
convertStringToByteArr(mfg.ToString("MM"), ref mfgDate_mo);
mfgDate_dy = new byte[mfg.ToString("dd").Length * sizeof(char)];//day
convertStringToByteArr(mfg.ToString("dd"), ref mfgDate_dy);
mfgDate_yr = new byte[mfg.ToString("yy").Length * sizeof(char)];//year
convertStringToByteArr(mfg.ToString("yy"), ref mfgDate_yr);//convert string to byte array, not taking encoding into account
private void convertStringToByteArr(String theString, ref byte[] theByteArr)
{
System.Buffer.BlockCopy(theString.ToCharArray(), 0, theByteArr, 0, theByteArr.Length);
}Why don't you just do binary serialization to a byte array? It'll be a little bigger then what you are doing because of the meta data, but if you want it really light weight, I don't really get the hex step. Just store the month, day and year?? Also, don't store just the 2 digit yr or you'll have Y2K issues.
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So just use the following to convert:
private byte[] Convert(int datePart)
{
// First of all, convert the date part into hex.
string convertedPart = datePart.ToString("X2");
// Now, return the byte array for the part.
System.Text.UTF8Encoding enc = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
return enc.GetBytes(convertedPart);
}*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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Why don't you just do binary serialization to a byte array? It'll be a little bigger then what you are doing because of the meta data, but if you want it really light weight, I don't really get the hex step. Just store the month, day and year?? Also, don't store just the 2 digit yr or you'll have Y2K issues.
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Are the requirements fixed? A
DateTimeis really alonginternally (Ticks), which of course can be stored in/retrieved from 8 bytes very easily.Dave
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Are the requirements fixed? A
DateTimeis really alonginternally (Ticks), which of course can be stored in/retrieved from 8 bytes very easily.Dave
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Yes, the requirements are fixed. This is related to a chip layout that a contractor designed years ago. Thanks for the suggestions, though!
No problem. Did you get it working?
Dave
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No problem. Did you get it working?
Dave
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