Re: Using unsigned shorts

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:03:36PM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:49 PM,  <mchalkley@mail.com> wrote:
> > I have to send and receive UDP packets containing unsigned shorts, for
> > a diagnostic tool I'm writing.
> 
> How about Roberto's struct library?

I would have thought that if you have a string 's' containing the two
bytes of the short, this is just fine:

	x = (string.byte(s, 1) * 256) + string.byte(s, 2)

B.