Convert ByteArray to Plaintext

[ars]

Hello,

for storing the byte array you could use QByteArray::toHex() to convert it to a hex representation. When loading, apply QByteArray::fromHex() get back the binary representation. With this approach your output file can be edited with any editor.

Best regards
ars

[TEAmerc]

Perfect, for some reason I didn't think to look for conversion functions!

Thanks,
TEAmerc

[ChrisW67]

when I try to view it in a text editor I just get garbage instead of the information as actual bytes.

Just for the record, that "garbage" is the actual bytes. What you were expecting is some encoding of those bytes in a printable-characters-only format, i.e. Not the actual bytes. You could use hexadecimal as suggested. Another easy option is Base64. You could even convert each byte to a decimal string and string them together as a comma separated list; 1,78,47,128,34,167,...