How to convert a binary representation of a string into byte in Java?

Question

as the title says, how do I do it? Its easy to convert from string -> byte -> string binary, But how do I convert back? Below is a example. The output is : \'f\' to binary:

Answer 1

You can use Byte.parseByte() with a radix of 2:

byte b = Byte.parseByte(str, 2);

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Using your example:

System.out.println(Byte.parseByte("01100110", 2));

102

Answer 2

You can parse it to an integer in base 2, and convert to a byte array. In your example you've got 16 bits you can also use short.

short a = Short.parseShort(b, 2);
ByteBuffer bytes = ByteBuffer.allocate(2).putShort(a);

byte[] array = bytes.array();

Just in case if you need it for a Very Big String.

String b = "0110100001101001";
byte[] bval = new BigInteger(b, 2).toByteArray();

Answer 3

I made like this, converted a string s -> byte[] and then used Integer.toBinaryString to get binaryStringRep. I converted bianryStringRep by using Byte.parseByte to get the bianryStringRep into byte and the String(newByte[]) to get the byte[] into a String! Hope it helps others then me aswell! ^^

public class main{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {

         String s = "foo";
          byte[] bytes = s.getBytes();
          byte[] newBytes = new byte[s.getBytes().length];
          for(int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++){
              String binaryStringRep = String.format("%8s", Integer.toBinaryString(bytes[i] & 0xFF)).replace(' ', '0');
              byte newByte = Byte.parseByte(binaryStringRep, 2);
              newBytes[i] = newByte;
          }

        String str = new String(newBytes, "UTF-8");
        System.out.println(str);
    }
}