public byte[] ConvertBinstrToBytes(string binarySequence, IncompleteSegmentBehavior behavior = IncompleteSegmentBehavior.Skip)
{
var segmentSize = sizeof(byte) * 8;
var sequenceLength = binarySequence.Length;
var numberOfBytes = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)sequenceLength / segmentSize);
var bytes = new byte[numberOfBytes];
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfBytes; i++)
{
var charactersLeft = sequenceLength - i * segmentSize;
var segmentLength = (charactersLeft < segmentSize ? charactersLeft : segmentSize);
var segment = binarySequence.Substring(i * segmentSize, segmentLength);
if (charactersLeft < segmentSize)
{
segment = HandleIncompleteSegment(segment, segmentSize, behavior);
if (segment == null)
continue;
}
bytes[i] = ConvertBinstrToByte(segment);
}
return bytes;
}
private string HandleIncompleteSegment(string segment, int segmentSize, IncompleteSegmentBehavior behavior)
{
string result = null;
var zeroAppender = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < segmentSize - segment.Length; i++)
zeroAppender.Append('0');
var zeros = zeroAppender.ToString();
switch (behavior)
{
case IncompleteSegmentBehavior.Skip:
break;
case IncompleteSegmentBehavior.ZerosToStart:
result = zeros + result;
break;
case IncompleteSegmentBehavior.ZerosToEnd:
result = result + zeros;
break;
default:
break;
}
return result;
}
