I'm ashamed to admit that as a programmer I've never worked with binary data.Anyway, now that that's out of the way...I know you can do simple conversion from 8 bit int values to byte: //Ok (max 8 ...

The reason is that you would have to have space of 50 bytes in each of the arrays in the jagged array to accommodate the largest string. In this example, the largest string is of size 50.