RE: packed decimals

No, what you described isn't packed decimal.  It's just the ordinary binary
representation of numbers.  If you want to send the number 69 as a two-byte
integer (which IS what you described), you just send two bytes.   The first
is the number divided by 256, with any remainder dropped (i.e. 0 in your
example) and the second is the number modulo 256 (i.e. 69 in your example).
 
And no, \u0001 isn't equivalent to x'01' because the former is two bytes
long and the latter is only one byte.  Don't confuse characters with bytes
in Java.
 
PC2
 
-----Original Message-----
From: teresa garcia [mailto:teresa_a_garcia@hotmail.com]
Sent: February 2, 2001 14:37
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: 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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