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Stephen:

Going to String is easy -- there's a Constructor you can use for that
hanging off of String.

To go to long you need to do some bit twiddling to keep the Big Indian
and the Little Indian in line.  Here's the method I use...

// convert 4 bytes into a long, least significant bit first
  static final long toLong(byte[] bStreamIn){
     if(bStreamIn.length != 4)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("long assumes 4 bytes");

        int part1 = (int)bStreamIn[0];
        int part2 = (int)bStreamIn[1];
        int part3 = (int)bStreamIn[2];
        int part4 = (int)bStreamIn[3];

        if(part1 < 0) part1 += 256;
        if(part2 < 0) part2 += 256;
        if(part3 < 0) part3 += 256;

        return( part1 + (part2 << 8) + (part3 << 16) + (part4 << 24)
);

  } // end of method toLong(byte[])

That should do the trick.

-Rich

Stephen J. Cherin wrote:
> 
> I need to convert/cast a byte[] to either a long or String.  How is this
> done?
> 
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> _________________________________
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