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I've always wanted something similar in C#. By convention, byte arrays are used for handling arbitrary blobs; but they are mutable and don't have the same kind of support that strings have. C# strings are immutable and have lots of supporting methods.

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These days C# has Span<byte> ¹) and ReadOnlySpan<byte> ²) which has a whole bunch of string-like methods, but the version of C# it requires might be newer than you're happy with.

¹) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.span-1

²) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.readonlys...

> but the version of C# it requires might be newer than you're happy with

Oh, that's a solvable problem. Thanks!

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