
Solidity Programming Essentials
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A byte refers to 8-bit signed integers. Everything in memory is stored in bits consisting of binary values – 0 and 1. Solidity also provides the byte data type to store information in binary format. Generally, programming languages have a single data type for representing bytes. However, Solidity has multiple flavors of the byte type. It provides data types that range from bytes1
to bytes32
inclusive, representing varying byte lengths, as required. These are called fixed-sized byte arrays and are implemented as value types. The bytes1
data type represents 1 byte, and bytes2
represents 2 bytes. The default value for byte is 0x00
, and it gets initialized with this value. Solidity also has a byte
type that is an alias of bytes1
.
A byte can be assigned byte values in hexadecimal format, as follows:
bytes1 aa = 0x65;
A byte can be assigned integer values in decimal format, as follows:
bytes1 bb = 10;
A byte can be assigned negative integer values...