Java – String getBytes() Method

This method has following two forms:

• getBytes(String charsetName): Encodes this String into a sequence of bytes using the named charset, storing the result into a new byte array.

• getBytes(): Encodes this String into a sequence of bytes using the platform’s default charset, storing the result into a new byte array.

Syntax:

Here is the syntax of this method:

public byte[] getBytes(String charsetName)
       throws UnsupportedEncodingException

or

public byte[] getBytes()

Parameters:

Here is the detail of parameters:

• charsetName — the name of a supported charset.

Return Value :

This method returns the resultant byte array

Example:

import java.io.*;

public class Test{

   public static void main(String args[]){
      String Str1 = new String("Welcome to dineshonjava.com");

      try{
         byte[] Str2 = Str1.getBytes();
         System.out.println("Returned  Value " + Str2 );

         Str2 = Str1.getBytes( "UTF-8" );
         System.out.println("Returned  Value " + Str2 );

         Str2 = Str1.getBytes( "ISO-8859-1" );
         System.out.println("Returned  Value " + Str2 );
      }catch( UnsupportedEncodingException e){
         System.out.println("Unsupported character set");
      }
   }
}

This produces following result: