How to convert string to binary string in Rust?

Question

I have a string and I want to convert it to a binary string.

let content = request_version.to_string() + &request_length.to_string() + request_json;

Answer 1

You probably meant a binary representation of your string in the type String.

fn main() {
    let name = "Jake".to_string();
    let mut name_in_binary = "".to_string();

    // Call into_bytes() which returns a Vec<u8>, and iterate accordingly
    // I only called clone() because this for loop takes ownership
    for character in name.clone().into_bytes() {
        name_in_binary += &format!("0{:b} ", character);
    }
    println!("\"{}\" in binary is {}", name, name_in_binary);
}

And that results:

"Jake" in binary is 01001010 01100001 01101011 01100101