muthukum palan

Hi,
Thanks much for responding to my question and it really helps.
I tried your suggestion and it works if the number is 12.However in the case of the sign and also for numbers like 81 or greater,it needs some modification.
I tried for several hours and couldn't make it work.Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

I was reading this thread "Using Comp-3 value in Java " and found it very useful.I am in the process of converting an ASCII decimal string to Packed decimal(comp-3) and wondering if you could help me.
For eg) I need to convert "12" to a single byte 0x12.
I would really appreciate if you could send me a code snippet in java that does the above.