RE: packed decimals -- JAVA400-L

Paul,

Sorry, disregard my previous email.

Thanks for the input. I tried your suggestion but the results were not positive. Maybe I should state the problem in a different way: How can I do something like this in java:

D $69 S 1A inz(x'69')

This a RPG declaration of a character variable $69, one byte long, initialized to x'69'.

When I write the "\u0001", I seem to be getting something that looks like the STX character X'01'.

Regards

Teresa

>From: "Clapham, Paul"

>Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com

>To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com

>Subject: RE: packed decimals

>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:58:06 -0800

>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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