Converting Signed byte to "unsigned" byte for storing to Harddrive etc

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Lets say i am working with a file format that takes bytes from 0-255 for some input. In Java, that is a bit hard with the allways signed byte.

How do i convert a int to byte and get the correct binary value?

Posted 31-Jan-13 9:20am

Liam S. Crouch

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DinoRondelly · Answer 1 · 2013-01-31T09:39:00

Solution 1

Converting an int to a byte,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842817/how-does-java-convert-int-into-byte[^]

Converting a byte to binary value,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11528898/convert-byte-to-binary-in-java[^]

Hope that helps,

Posted 31-Jan-13 9:39am

DinoRondelly