How to split a byte array

Question

I have a byte array in memory, read from a file. I would like to split the byte array at a certain point (index) without having to just create a new byte array and copy each byte at a time, increasing the in memory foot print of the operation. What I would like is something like this:

byte[] largeBytes = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];   byte[] smallPortion;   smallPortion = split(largeBytes, 3);   

smallPortion would equal 1,2,3,4
largeBytes would equal 5,6,7,8,9

Answer 1

In C# with Linq you can do this:

smallPortion = largeBytes.Take(4).ToArray(); largeBytes = largeBytes.Skip(4).Take(5).ToArray(); 

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Answer 2

FYI. System.ArraySegment<T> structure basically is the same thing as ArrayView<T> in the code above. You can use this out-of-the-box structure in the same way, if you'd like.