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How do I encode the value of a variable of type long (or int) into bytes? And how
do I restore the original value of the long (or int) variable back
How do I encode the value of a variable of type long (or int) into bytes such that the
number of bytes used will always be the same, say 4 bytes?
Answer:
int in; ...
byte b1 = (byte)(in & 0xff);
byte b2 = (byte)((in >> 8) & 0xff);
byte b3 = (byte)((in >> 16) & 0xff);
byte b4 = (byte)(in >>> 24);
: How do I restore the original value of the long (or int) variable back
: from the bytes that i have just created then?
Answer:
int in = (b1 & 0xff) | ((b2 > 8) | (b4