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I have a buffer obtained by executing MQMessage.readLine(); This buffer is expected to contain a String, but apparently its first two character positions contain an int. How can I obtain this int? Integer.parseInt will not work and neither with Byte.decode(), and int x = (int) stringAB is illegal.
Everyone thinks I'm weird to ask this question. What am I missing?
 
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What exactly is in the first two character positions? If it's a string like "01" you can substring and then use Integer.parseInt(). If it's something binary like 0x00 0x01 then I'm worried about it making the transition from the message to a String and back to a number. You can try taking a substring and getBytes() and working from there.
 
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Stan,

Thanks a lot for the fast response! That was a big help.

The first 2 characters contain an int.
 
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