From a1a5b73c5970210bf5d2bdb0d2d05cac107a0b1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nathan <nathan@dorkbox.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 01:15:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added more sys utils

---
 Dorkbox-Util/src/dorkbox/util/Sys.java | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Dorkbox-Util/src/dorkbox/util/Sys.java b/Dorkbox-Util/src/dorkbox/util/Sys.java
index d75f71e..4e013f0 100644
--- a/Dorkbox-Util/src/dorkbox/util/Sys.java
+++ b/Dorkbox-Util/src/dorkbox/util/Sys.java
@@ -414,6 +414,19 @@ class Sys {
         return bytes;
     }
 
+    public static
+    byte[] charToBytesRaw(char[] chars) {
+        int length = chars.length;
+        byte[] bytes = new byte[length];
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+            char charValue = chars[i];
+            bytes[i] = (byte) charValue;
+        }
+
+        return bytes;
+    }
+
     public static
     int[] bytesToInts(byte[] bytes) {
         int length = bytes.length;