Please ignore my previous email. It is not relevant to the original question.
thanks,
Srikanth
On 4/14/06, Srikanth Veeramachaneni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure if this is relevant to the original question, but I have used
> the following logic to convert bytes to integers. This logic assumes
> that the data is ASCII similar to what Robert desribed.
> -----------------------------------
> public static int toInt(byte[] aBytes) {
> if (aBytes == null || aBytes.length == 0) {
> return 0;
> }
> if (aBytes.length > 4) {
> throw new IllegalArgumentException("Number of bytes >
> 4");
> }
> int total = 0;
> for (int value : aBytes) {
> total = total << 8 | (value & 0xFF);
> }
> return total;
> }
> -----------------------------------
>
> thanks,
> Srikanth
>
> On 4/14/06, Enrique Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > ...
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > byte[] stringBytes = new byte[length];
> > > buffer.get(stringBytes, 0, length);
> > > char[] stringChars = new char[length];
> > > for (int i = 0; i < stringChars.length; i++)
> > > {
> > > stringChars[i] = (char) stringBytes[i];
> > > }
> > > return new String(stringChars);
> > >
> > > Although it looks a bit cumbersome it is five times faster (from my
> > > measurements) than constructing the String directly from a byte array.
> >
> > Thanks! I needed this for something I'm working on, too.
> >
> > Enrique
> >
> >
>
