toByteArray

inline fun String.toByteArray(charset: Charset = Charsets.UTF_8): ByteArray

Encodes the contents of this string using the specified character set and returns the resulting byte array.

Samples

import samples.*
import java.util.Locale
import kotlin.test.*
fun main() { 
   //sampleStart 
   val charset = Charsets.UTF_8
val byteArray = "Hello".toByteArray(charset)
assertPrints(byteArray.contentToString(), "[72, 101, 108, 108, 111]")
assertPrints(byteArray.toString(charset), "Hello") 
   //sampleEnd
}