Integer.toHexString() on a negative value ?

[Pho Tek]

I wrote a program that generated a 20 byte SHA-1 hash value.
The values are in a byte array and I am trying to print them
out as hexadecimal string.
I am having problems printing out negative values.
e.g. byte b = (byte)0xff;
System.out.println( Integer.toHexString(b) );
produces fffffffd ?? Shouldn't I get back ff ?
Thanks
Pho

[Thomas Bigbee]

I believe the below from the api states exactly what is happening
toHexString
Creates a string representation of the integer argument as an unsigned integer in base 16.
The unsigned integer value is the argument plus 2^32 if the argument is negative; otherwise, it is equal to the argument.
Hope that helps, Tom
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