ByteStringBuilder Class

Class that represents a mutable sequence of single-byte characters or bytes

For a list of all members of this type, see ByteStringBuilder Members.

System.Object
   ByteStringBuilder

Remarks

This class works together with ByteString in the same way that System.Text.StringBuilder works with System.String. The difference between StringBuilder and ByteStringBuilder is that StringBuilder contains character data only, using 16-bit Unicode code points, while ByteStringBuilder contains 8-bit character data or non-character byte data.

This class is necessary, because instances of ByteString are immutable. Therefore, to create a ByteString by concatenating several sequences of bytes, it is much more efficient to first create an instance of ByteStringBuilder, perform all the concatenation operations on it, and in the end convert it to a ByteString instance. When an instance of ByteStringBuilder is converted to an instance of ByteString by calling the ByteStringBuilder.ToByteString() method, the internal byte array is passed directly to the new ByteString instance, making this operation very efficient.

Requirements

Namespace: Hunny.Base

Assembly: Hunny.Base (in Hunny.Base.dll)

See Also

ByteStringBuilder Members | Hunny.Base Namespace