Swap binary data endianess

Hello all,
I have a preconfigured FPGA, which is outputting 8bit unsigned binary data in packets (which are 90bytes long). I'm reading this data into LabView using VISA (over RS232). The VISA-Read is converting the binary to hex (as I expect), but it's doing it with the wrong endianess, so the hex is meaningless (i.e. I get a 2 when I expect 64 etc).
I can see may ways (both through inbuilt functions and solutions suggested here) for correcting endianess of multiple bytes ("Swap Bytes" for example), but none for changing this internal to a single byte, nor can I see a means of configuring VISA in this respect. Am I missing something obvious? All suggestions welcome, thank you!

I never heard of a format with reversed bits. Are you sure that's what it actually is?
Can you attach a VI containing a typical 90byte raw data set and the desired result?
I would go with the Lookup table as in Darin's top example. If you disable debugging, it will get folded into a constant at compile time and is thus extremely efficient at runtime. (or just make it into a constant manually as Darin did).
(Darin, that second algorithm is weird. These guys have way too much time on their hand: Inflate each byte 8x to U64 just to do some obscure binary operations then shrink it back later... )
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 sout.flush();
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 HttpServletResponse response,
 String contentType ) {
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 sout.write(data);
 sout.flush();
 sout.close();
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That's all!!.. Hope this helps...!

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Hi XI Gurus,
we have the following issue.
We send a PDF as binary data (as a hex string '25255044462D3' ) along with some other information from ERP within one RFC to XI , doing a message split 1:n for those two kind of messages (1. the PDF, 2. the XML) an send the split messages to file/ftp receiver adapter.
The message split and sending of the messages is working well, but we encounter some problems with non-printable chars (hex code below 0x20) in the pdf binary. The PDF data and the dynamic file name is mapped into an XML. But the non printable characters are converted into '#' when mapped into the XML target field.
(Due to the 1:n multi mapping, we cannot put the filename into dynamic configuration, so we have to map the pdf and the filename into an XML and extract the content with variable substitution in receiver file adapter....)
My question is: how can binary data with non-printable chars be sent through XI and can be mapped into an XML without beeing replaced by '#' ?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and regards
Holger

Maybe I didn´t explained it clearly enough.
We do not have the issue that the RFC puts the '#' into the string. We got from the RFC a hex string containing the pdf as visible hex values like:
As you can see we have the pdf as hex string. During message mapping XI replaces some non-printable chars like '0x04' or '0x19' with '#'.
My question is: how can we avoid those char replacement ?
BTW: I grabbed a pdf with sender file adapter, routed through XI without any mapping and send it with ftp in binary mode. But the pdf contains more chars as the origional file and the pdf content is not visible when opening with a pdf reader like Acrobat. I guess the file adpter has problems with carriage return and linefeed chars. Some CR and LF are replaced inserted somehow.
Best regards,
Holger

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Thank you

Better to trim those values after the form submission.
Once you put them into form,
user may also makes mistake by hitting space, right?
Also, by trimming all form fields after submission, you will
be sure that your DB is clean... no whitespaces on it.
Well unless someone insert data directly onto it :)

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Hi Folks,
need some advice from the experts here about an error I got yesterday while installing a (Java-based) Software at a customer using Oracle 9.2.0.8.
While being able to work with the database most of the time, I get an error when trying to save binary data. Unfortunately I don't have access to the DB-logs, so I hope the log I have may raise a thought or two from anybody and that may help me bring some light into the darkness I'm poking in at the moment.
<log>
java.sql.SQLException: No more data to read from socket
 at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)
 at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179)
 at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.check_error(DBError.java:1160)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.MAREngine.unmarshalUB1(MAREngine.java:962)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.MAREngine.unmarshalSB1(MAREngine.java:894)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.Oclose.receive(Oclose.java:103)
 at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.close(TTC7Protocol.java:693)
 at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.close(OracleStatement.java:731)
 at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.privateClose(OraclePreparedStatement.java:535)
 at oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.close(OraclePreparedStatement.java:440)
 at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingStatement.close(DelegatingStatement.java:168)
</log>
I searched around and got some results about
- codepage: The DBA told me that the DB is using "cp1252", so I tried to use both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 (both are supported by the application)
- Session Management: Tried to raise/decrease the limits for idle/maximum connections and the DBA told me to set the parameter "SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS=0", but unfortunately this is not possible when using a connection URL "jdbc:oracle:thin:@..."
So... if anybody has an idea what to check or ask the DBA to change or almost anything, I'd kindly welcome the feedback.
Thanks,
enni

Hi Sybrand,
thank you for your clarification for the codepage!
And no, I don't think that I found a new issue, just wasn't able to find a good answer on the net and after trying to get an evaluation copy (just for the install and first tests) of Oracle 9, the support told me "No way.".
And yes, you're definitely right, it should be buried.
But we all know that there are companies out there that allow new applications tests on thier "good'old" DB. Guess that is exactly what happens here.
Maybe somebody else reads this and had similiar problems in the past, so I keep this "open" for just some more time.
Thanks,
have a good time!
enni

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