integer/short to byte array

[chopperdudes]

pretty much... google tells me how to do it in java, and i wasn't successful at finding out how to do it "manually". I'm not very good at these low level stuff, but am thinking of using turing's net commands and making a communication link between 2 programs. i think stuff might work if i can somehow converted for example a short to a byte array of length 2 and an int to a byte array of length 4.

is there any way to do this in turing? or how would you do it manually (i.e. on paper if this is possible)?

thanks

[Tony]

write the number out

code:

1111000011110000 --------........    |       | byte      byte

[DemonWasp]

Within Turing, you will want what are called "bitwise operators". In Turing, those are shl, shr, or, and (shift left, shift right, bitwise-or, bitwise-and).

[chopperdudes]

oh i see thanks, tony's explaination was pretty much what i was looking for.

also... now that i look into it... might as well just use java for the TCP/IP communication link...