Re: packed decimals

[marshall@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Try,

AS400PackedDecimal a = new AS400PackedDecimal(2,0);
byte[]  b = a.toBytes(new BigDecimal(69));

This should result in b = x'069F' not x'0069' since the last nibble is used for the sign.

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"teresa garcia" <teresa_a_garcia@hotmail.com> Sent by: owner-java400-l@midrange.com 02/02/2001 04:02 PM Please respond to JAVA400-L

To:        java400-l@midrange.com         cc:                 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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