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  3. February 2001

RE: packed decimals

Dan, Could you give a bit more detail. I already went through BigDecimal. It looks good when converting packed data into something that can be manipulated with a Java program. I am going the other way around. I want to create packed data. Maybe I am missing a method or something...

>From: "Dan Hoover"
>Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>To:
>Subject: RE: packed decimals
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:38:05 -0500
>
>java.math.BigDecimal
>
>HTH
>Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-java400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-java400-l@midrange.com]On
>Behalf Of teresa garcia
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:02 PM
> To: java400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: packed decimals
>
>
> Does any one out there knows how to "create" the equivalent of packed
>decimals with java?
>
> I am writing a program to send a message to a remote application and I
>have to pre-apend the message with a packed two bytes field containing the
>message length. My message is 69 bytes long, therefore the first two bytes
>are expected to contain X'00'& X'69'.
>
> One more question, is the STX generate with '\u0001' equivalent to ASCII
>X'01' ?
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Teresa
>
>
>
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