Testing `getBytes`

Foo.java

package com.mzsanford;

import java.util.*;

public class Foo {
  public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {
    String str = null;
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Starting scanner ...");
    while (str != null) {
      byte[] bytes = str.getBytes("ASCII");
      System.out.println("Dumping '" + str + "'");
      for (int i=0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
        System.out.println("  " + i + ": " + bytes[i]);
      }
      str = sc.nextLine();
    }
  }
}

log

Starting scanner ...
^H                       # Unicode Mac keyboard Alt+0008
Dumping '
  0: 8