How to decode the field data type?

[ronming1303]

Hi There,

I notice that in Aleo there is no data type of "String". I think it uses "Field" instead, but how to decode the "Field" to human-readable string? E.g. In the vote project, when input title: 2077160157502449938194577302446444field, what does that mean?

Thanks in advance

[ronming1303]

Just figure it out, python code to decode it:

integer_representation = 2077160157502449938194577302446444

bytes_array = integer_representation.to_bytes((integer_representation.bit_length() + 7) // 8, 'big')

original_string = bytes_array.decode('utf-8')

print("Original string:", original_string)

The output is "first proposal"