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From: =?UTF-8?q?Jos=C3=A9=20Sim=C3=B5es?= <jose.simoes@eclo.solutions>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 12:37:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add Encoding.GetString() method
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Signed-off-by: José Simões <jose.simoes@eclo.solutions>
---
 source/System/Text/Encoding.cs | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/source/System/Text/Encoding.cs b/source/System/Text/Encoding.cs
index f0f55ce7..ce747f48 100644
--- a/source/System/Text/Encoding.cs
+++ b/source/System/Text/Encoding.cs
@@ -123,6 +123,18 @@ public virtual char[] GetChars(byte[] bytes, int byteIndex, int byteCount)
             throw new NotImplementedException();
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// When overridden in a derived class, decodes a sequence of bytes from the specified byte array into a <see cref="String"/>.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="bytes">The byte array containing the sequence of bytes to decode.</param>
+        /// <param name="index">The index of the first byte to decode.</param>
+        /// <param name="count">The number of bytes to decode.</param>
+        /// <returns>A <see cref="String"/> that contains the results of decoding the specified sequence of bytes.</returns>
+        public virtual string GetString(byte[] bytes, int index, int count)
+        {
+            return new string(GetChars(bytes, index, count));
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// When overridden in a derived class, obtains a decoder that converts an encoded sequence of bytes into a sequence of characters.
         /// </summary>