Converting long string of binary to hex c#

Question

I\'m looking for a way to convert a long string of binary to a hex string.

the binary string looks something like this \"01100110100101110010011101010111001101

Answer 1

I just knocked this up. Maybe you can use as a starting point...

public static string BinaryStringToHexString(string binary)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(binary))
        return binary;

    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(binary.Length / 8 + 1);

    // TODO: check all 1's or 0's... throw otherwise

    int mod4Len = binary.Length % 8;
    if (mod4Len != 0)
    {
        // pad to length multiple of 8
        binary = binary.PadLeft(((binary.Length / 8) + 1) * 8, '0');
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < binary.Length; i += 8)
    {
        string eightBits = binary.Substring(i, 8);
        result.AppendFormat("{0:X2}", Convert.ToByte(eightBits, 2));
    }

    return result.ToString();
}

Answer 2

You can take the input number four digit at a time. Convert this digit to ex ( as you did is ok ) then concat the string all together. So you obtain a string representing the number in hex, independetly from the size. Depending on where start MSB on your input string, may be the output string you obtain the way i described must be reversed.

Answer 3

If you want to iterate over the hexadecimal representation of each byte in the string, you could use the following extension. I've combined Mitch's answer with this.

static class StringExtensions
{
    public static IEnumerable<string> ToHex(this String s) {
        if (s == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("s");

        int mod4Len = s.Length % 8;
        if (mod4Len != 0)
        {
            // pad to length multiple of 8
            s = s.PadLeft(((s.Length / 8) + 1) * 8, '0');
        }

        int numBitsInByte = 8;
        for (var i = 0; i < s.Length; i += numBitsInByte)
        {
            string eightBits = s.Substring(i, numBitsInByte);
            yield return string.Format("{0:X2}", Convert.ToByte(eightBits, 2));
        }
    }
}

Example:

string test = "0110011010010111001001110101011100110100001101101000011001010110001101101011";

foreach (var hexVal in test.ToHex())
{
    Console.WriteLine(hexVal);  
}

Prints

06
69
72
75
73
43
68
65
63
6B

Answer 4

Considering four bits can be expressed by one hex value, you can simply go by groups of four and convert them seperately, the value won't change that way.

string bin = "11110110";

int rest = bin.Length % 4;
if(rest != 0)
    bin = new string('0', 4-rest) + bin; //pad the length out to by divideable by 4

string output = "";

for(int i = 0; i <= bin.Length - 4; i +=4)
{
    output += string.Format("{0:X}", Convert.ToByte(bin.Substring(i, 4), 2));
}

Answer 5

This might help you:

string HexConverted(string strBinary)
    {
        string strHex = Convert.ToInt32(strBinary,2).ToString("X");
        return strHex;
    }

Answer 6

static string BinToHex(string bin)
{
    if (bin == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("bin");
    if (bin.Length % 8 != 0)
        throw new ArgumentException("The length must be a multiple of 8", "bin");

    var hex = Enumerable.Range(0, bin.Length / 8)
                     .Select(i => bin.Substring(8 * i, 8))
                     .Select(s => Convert.ToByte(s, 2))
                     .Select(b => b.ToString("x2"));
    return String.Join(null, hex);
}