In C#, byte is the data type for 8-bit unsigned integers, so a byte[] should be an array of integers who are between 0 and 255, just like an char[] is an array of characters.
But most of time when I encounter byte[], I see byte[] is used as a contiguous chunk of memory for storing raw representation of data.
How do these two relate to each other?
thanks
Best Answer
Well, a byte as datatype is exactly what you already said, an unsigned integer between 0 and 255. Furthermore this type needs exactly - believe it or not - one byte in your memory, thus also the name. This is why most readers that read byte per byte store those information in a structure that fits exactly the size of a byte - the byte-datatype.