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C# in a Nutshell
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C# in a Nutshell

by Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, Peter Drayton
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Encoder

Synopsis

Encoding.GetEncoder() returns an instance of this type, which converts character arrays to byte arrays using the encoding subclass from which it was constructed. This class exposes the GetBytes() method, which converts a sequence of character blocks into a sequence of byte blocks. Since Encoder maintains state between calls to GetBytes(), it can deal with partial sequences that occur at block boundaries.

The last argument to GetBytes() is a boolean that specifies whether the internal buffer is flushed after the method is called. If true, state information on the object is lost between blocks. If false (the default), the buffer is maintained. A call with flushing set to true is needed on the final call to Encoding.GetBytes() to close the byte array properly.

public abstract class Encoder {
// Protected Constructors
   protected method Encoder();  
// Public Instance Methods
   public abstract method int GetByteCount(char[] chars, 
        int index, int count, bool flush);  
   public abstract method int GetBytes(char[] chars, 
        int charIndex, int charCount, byte[] bytes, 
        int byteIndex, bool flush);  
}

Returned By

Encoding.GetEncoder()

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