namespace Wayne.Lib
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The format of a byte[] converted to (and sometimes from) a string.
    /// </summary>
    public enum StringsByteArrayFormat
    {
        #region Fields

        /// <summary>
        /// The bytes symbolizes decimal numbers.
        /// The converted string is comma separated.
        /// </summary>
        Bytes,

        /// <summary>
        /// The bytes symbolizes hexadecimal numbers.
        /// The converted string is comma separated.
        /// </summary>
        Hex,

        /// <summary>
        /// The bytes symbolizes hexadecimal numbers.
        /// </summary>
        CompactHex,

        /// <summary>
        /// The bytes symbolizes the current code page's ANSI characters.
        /// Unreadable characters are shown as hex-values.
        /// </summary>
        ANSI,

        /// <summary>
        /// The bytes symbolizes the current code page's ANSI characters.
        /// Unreadable characters are replaced with '?' which means that no conversion
        /// back from string to array is supported (due to data loss).
        /// </summary>
        CompactANSI,

        /// <summary>
        /// Put the bytes into a string using 1252 encoding
        /// </summary>
        String,

        /// <summary>
        /// Get raw bytes stuffed into a string back into a byte array
        /// </summary>
        Raw,

        #endregion
    }
}