RE: packed decimals

["teresa garcia" <teresa_a_garcia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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