Binary Decoding in Visual Studio/VB.NETThis is a discussion on Binary Decoding in Visual Studio/VB.NET within the Programming Languages forums in category; I have a 56 byte array of data. Document says that position 31-33 is a date value stored as a 3-byte (Binary Date - big-endian format). The values in these three bytes are 0,159, and 204. I have tried everything I can think of with the encoding methods in .net Here is my line of code that returns garbage data back...definitely not a date value RecDate = Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetString(e.Datagram.Buf fer, 31, 3) Any help is appreciated.... | ||||||||
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09-04-2008, 02:06 PM
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 Binary Decoding in Visual Studio/VB.NET I have a 56 byte array of data. Document says that position 31-33 is a date value stored as a 3-byte (Binary Date - big-endian format). The values in these three bytes are 0,159, and 204. I have tried everything I can think of with the encoding methods in .net Here is my line of code that returns garbage data back...definitely not a date value RecDate = Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetString(e.Datagram.Buf fer, 31, 3) Any help is appreciated.  |
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09-04-2008, 03:17 PM
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| Re: Binary Decoding in Visual Studio/VB.NET On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:06:51 -0700, sbenavides wrote: > RecDate = Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetString(e.Datagram.Buf fer, 31, 3) > Any help is appreciated. What gives you the idea that it is a string? I know SFA about your platform, but just reading the three bytes as a 24 bit big endian number gives me: 0 * 2^16 + 159 * 2^8 + 204 = 40908, which looks like september4th 08 to me. I would note the Y2 or 3K bug here. Regards, Dan. |
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