I have a BitArray with the length of 8, and I need a function to convert it to a byte. How to do it?
Specifically, I need a correct function of ConvertToByte:
BitArray bit = new BitArray(new bool[]
{
false, false, false, false,
false, false, false, true
});
//How to write ConvertToByte
byte myByte = ConvertToByte(bit);
var recoveredBit = new BitArray(new[] { myByte });
Assert.AreEqual(bit, recoveredBit);
This should work:
byte ConvertToByte(BitArray bits)
{
if (bits.Count != 8)
{
throw new ArgumentException("bits");
}
byte[] bytes = new byte[1];
bits.CopyTo(bytes, 0);
return bytes[0];
}
A bit late post, but this works for me:
public static byte[] BitArrayToByteArray(BitArray bits)
{
byte[] ret = new byte[(bits.Length - 1) / 8 + 1];
bits.CopyTo(ret, 0);
return ret;
}
Works with:
string text = "Test";
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(text);
BitArray bits = new BitArray(bytes);
bytes[] bytesBack = BitArrayToByteArray(bits);
string textBack = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytesBack);
// bytes == bytesBack
// text = textBack
.
A poor man's solution:
protected byte ConvertToByte(BitArray bits)
{
if (bits.Count != 8)
{
throw new ArgumentException("illegal number of bits");
}
byte b = 0;
if (bits.Get(7)) b++;
if (bits.Get(6)) b += 2;
if (bits.Get(5)) b += 4;
if (bits.Get(4)) b += 8;
if (bits.Get(3)) b += 16;
if (bits.Get(2)) b += 32;
if (bits.Get(1)) b += 64;
if (bits.Get(0)) b += 128;
return b;
}
This should do the trick. However the previous answer is quite likely the better option.
public byte ConvertToByte(BitArray bits)
{
if (bits.Count > 8)
throw new ArgumentException("ConvertToByte can only work with a BitArray containing a maximum of 8 values");
byte result = 0;
for (byte i = 0; i < bits.Count; i++)
{
if (bits[i])
result |= (byte)(1 << i);
}
return result;
}
In the example you posted the resulting byte will be 0x80. In other words the first value in the BitArray coresponds to the first bit in the returned byte.
That's should be the ultimate one. Works with any length of array.
private List<byte> BoolList2ByteList(List<bool> values)
{
List<byte> ret = new List<byte>();
int count = 0;
byte currentByte = 0;
foreach (bool b in values)
{
if (b) currentByte |= (byte)(1 << count);
count++;
if (count == 7) { ret.Add(currentByte); currentByte = 0; count = 0; };
}
if (count < 7) ret.Add(currentByte);
return ret;
}
In addition to @JonSkeet answer you can use Generic Method as blow:
public static byte ToByte(this BitArray bits)
{
if (bits.Count != 8)
{
throw new ArgumentException("bits");
}
byte[] bytes = new byte[1];
bits.CopyTo(bytes, 0);
return bytes[0];
}
And use like:
BitArray foo = new BitArray(new bool[]
{
false, false, false, false,false, false, false, true
});
foo.ToByte();
Unfortunately, the BitArray class is partially implemented in .Net Core class (UWP). For example BitArray class is unable to call the CopyTo() and Count() methods. I wrote this extension to fill the gap:
public static IEnumerable<byte> ToBytes(this BitArray bits, bool MSB = false)
{
int bitCount = 7;
int outByte = 0;
foreach (bool bitValue in bits)
{
if (bitValue)
outByte |= MSB ? 1 << bitCount : 1 << (7 - bitCount);
if (bitCount == 0)
{
yield return (byte) outByte;
bitCount = 8;
outByte = 0;
}
bitCount--;
}
// Last partially decoded byte
if (bitCount < 7)
yield return (byte) outByte;
}
The method decodes the BitArray to a byte array using LSB (Less Significant Byte) logic. This is the same logic used by the BitArray class. Calling the method with the MSB parameter set on true will produce a MSB decoded byte sequence. In this case, remember that you maybe also need to reverse the final output byte collection.
byte GetByte(BitArray input)
{
int len = input.Length;
if (len > 8)
len = 8;
int output = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
if (input.Get(i))
output += (1 << (len - 1 - i)); //this part depends on your system (Big/Little)
//output += (1 << i); //depends on system
return (byte)output;
}
Cheers!
Little endian byte array converter : First bit (indexed with "0") in the BitArray assumed to represents least significant bit (rightmost bit in the bit-octet) which interpreted as "zero" or "one" as binary.
public static class BitArrayExtender {
public static byte[] ToByteArray( this BitArray bits ) {
const int BYTE = 8;
int length = ( bits.Count / BYTE ) + ( (bits.Count % BYTE == 0) ? 0 : 1 );
var bytes = new byte[ length ];
for ( int i = 0; i < bits.Length; i++ ) {
int bitIndex = i % BYTE;
int byteIndex = i / BYTE;
int mask = (bits[ i ] ? 1 : 0) << bitIndex;
bytes[ byteIndex ] |= (byte)mask;
}//for
return bytes;
}//ToByteArray
}//class
A sample from my codes:
Public Shared Function BytesXor(a1 As Byte(), a2 As Byte()) As Byte()
Dim ba1 As BitArray = New BitArray(a1)
Dim ba2 As BitArray = New BitArray(a2)
Dim intLength As Integer = System.Math.Min(a1.Length, a2.Length)
Dim RetrunValue(intLength - 1) As Byte
If ba1.Length > ba2.Length Then ba1.Length = ba2.Length
If ba2.Length > ba1.Length Then ba2.Length = ba1.Length
Dim ba3 As BitArray = ba1.Xor(ba2)
Dim p As Integer = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To intLength - 1
Dim v As Integer = 0
For j As Integer = 0 To 7
If ba3.Get(p) Then
'BitArray(Byte()) sorts bits from lower to higher
'"BitArray to Byte" must be put by reverse order
v += 1 << j
End If
p += 1
Next
RetrunValue(i) = CByte(v)
Next
Return RetrunValue
End Function
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/560123/convert-from-bitarray-to-byte