How do I convert from 8 bit byte to 7 bit byte (Base 256 to Base 128)

Question

How do I convert from 8 bit byte to 7 bit byte (Base 256 to Base 128)

I am looking to do something like this:

public string BytesToString(byte[] in)
{

}         


        

Answer 1

Alternatively, there's the ASCIIEncoding class that converts a UTF-8 String to an array of 8-bits bytes, discarding characters that can't be represented in 7-bits ASCII.