From be333da9c0a6013560731d2ae6a86e3c290a5171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: depristo <depristo@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] charSeq2byteSeq -- convert a char[] to a byte[] for
 convenience

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@1917 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java
index e8975eb10..1a271eb24 100644
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java
@@ -410,6 +410,15 @@ public class BaseUtils {
     	}
     	return period;
     }
+
+    public static byte[] charSeq2byteSeq(char[] seqIn) {
+        byte[] seqOut = new byte[seqIn.length];
+        for ( int i = 0; i < seqIn.length; i++ ) {
+            seqOut[i] = (byte)seqIn[i];
+        }
+        return seqOut;
+    }
+
 }
 
 /* code snippet for testing sequencePeriod():