java - How to efficiently convert byte array to string

Question

I have a byte array of 151 bytes which is typically a record, The record needs to inserted in to a oracle database. In 151 byte of array range from 0 to 1 is a record id , 2 to 3 is an reference id , 4 to 9 is a date value. The following data in an byte array is a date value. i want to convert it to string

byte[] b= {48,48,49,48,48,52};  // when converted to string it becomes 10042. 

new String(b);  // current approach

is there any way to efficiently to convert byte array of some range (Arrays.copyOfRange(b,0,5)) to string .

Answer 1

new String(b, 0 ,5);

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