How to get the binary code behind ASCII (C#)

Question

I'm trying to find out how to convert input to a console, into binary; how can such a conversion be made in C#?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

string s = Console.ReadLine();
byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s);

Note that the encoding used by the console isn't actually ASCII... you should probably use Console.InputEncoding instead of Encoding.ASCII

To get the binary representation of each byte, you can use Convert.ToString:

foreach(byte b in bytes)
{
    Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(b, 2));
}