Unreadable characters in files

I was wondering how I could do the following.
If you hex edit a wav file you see a jumble of readable text plus strange characters.
I want to store , say the first 20 characters from a wav file so that I could reproduce them again at a later time.
I know I can store the ascii equivent of the readable text as a numeric representation, but how could I store the unreadable characters in a positve(+) number to represent them, so that I can restore them later.

I was wondering how I could do the following.
If you hex edit a wav file you see a jumble of
readable text plus strange characters.You see 'bytes' but not necessarily 'characters'.
>
I want to store , say the first 20 characters from aI assume you mean 'bytes' not 'characters'
wav file so that I could reproduce them again at a
later time. Store the bytes in a byte array - not characters.
I know I can store the ascii equivent of the readable
text as a numeric representation, but how could IHow do you know this? In what context?
store the unreadable characters in a positve(+)
number to represent them, so that I can restore them
later.If you have stored the bytes in a byte array then you can restore them from the byte array. I don't understand your need for a 'positive number'!

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