C# int to byte[]

Question

I need to convert an int to a byte[] one way of doing it is to use BitConverter.GetBytes(). But im unsure if that matches the following specification:

An XDR signed integer is a 32-bit datum that encodes an integer in the range [-2147483648,2147483647]. The integer is represented in two's complement notation. The most and least significant bytes are 0 and 3, respectively. Integers are declared as follows:

Source: RFC1014 3.2

How could i do a int to byte transformation that would satisfy the above specification?

user_495799 · Answer

The other way is to use BinaryPrimitives like so

byte[] intBytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(123); int actual = BinaryPrimitives.ReadInt32LittleEndian(intBytes);

user_12409548 · Answer

using static System.Console;

namespace IntToBits
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            while (true)
            {
                string s = Console.ReadLine();
                Clear();
                uint i;
                bool b = UInt32.TryParse(s, out i);
                if (b) IntPrinter(i);
            }
        }

        static void IntPrinter(uint i)
        {
            int[] iarr = new int [32];
            Write("[");
            for (int j = 0; j < 32; j++)
            {
                uint tmp = i & (uint)Math.Pow(2, j);

                iarr[j] = (int)(tmp >> j);
            }
            for (int j = 32; j > 0; j--)
            {
                if(j%8==0 && j != 32)Write("|");
                if(j%4==0 && j%8 !=0) Write("'");
                Write(iarr[j-1]);
            }
            WriteLine("]");
        }
    }
}```

C# int to byte[]

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