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- Subject: Re: Using unsigned shorts
- From: Jay Carlson <nop@...>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:42:33 -0500
On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:03:36PM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:49 PM, <mchalkley@mail.com> wrote:
>>> I have to send and receive UDP packets containing unsigned shorts, for
>>> a diagnostic tool I'm writing.
>>
>> How about Roberto's struct library?
>
> I would have thought that if you have a string 's' containing the two
> bytes of the short, this is just fine:
>
> x = (string.byte(s, 1) * 256) + string.byte(s, 2)
I find it comforting somebody else still thinks big-endian.
