Changing a String to a byte

Question

Here is my problem. I read from the keyboard and I build a String. I need to take this String and change it to bytes so I can store it in an array of bytes. Please help
Thanks
Spoon

Answer 1

This any good to you?/*          The program gets info from the in-built ASCII files. binary characters
*          65 to 91 (01000001 to 01011011) and then writes them to a new file
*          called "Alphabet.txt" - (65 to 91 are the alphabet characters in upper case
import java.io.*;
class TextWrite2 {
        public static void main (String args[]) throws IOException {
            FileWriter text = new FileWriter("Alphabet.txt");
                 for (int i=97; i<123;i++) {
              text.write((char)i);
        text.close();
}