arrays – Creating Byte[] in PowerShell

arrays – Creating Byte[] in PowerShell

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[System.Byte[]]::CreateInstance([System.Byte],<Length>)

In PS 5.1, this:

[System.Byte[]]::CreateInstance(<Length>)

didnt work for me. So instead I did:

new-object byte[] 4

which resulted in an empty byte[4]:

0
0
0
0

arrays – Creating Byte[] in PowerShell

Cast it to a byte array:

[byte[]]$bytes = Get-Content $file -Encoding byte