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I need to encode bytes into a ByteArrayOutputStream. The data in each byte must be exactly
eight bits long without truncating the leading zeros. For example, if I want to encode the
integer value 12 (as an unsigned byte) I am doing the following: ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); short num = 12; out.write(num & 0xFF); However, if I read the first element in the ByteArrayOutputStream into a string variable, the leading
zeros are truncated, leaving only 1100. The communication protocol that we are using expects a
single octet with the leading zeros left in, or else the framing will be
off. How do I maintain the zero
placeholders in each byte and keep them from being truncated? Or am I missing something here? Greg Lusk |