byte merge (II)

Hi,

Following from an earlier post, I wish to merge bytes b1 & b2:

b1 = 1 (0000 0001)

b2 = 7 (0000 0111)

and when I merge them, I need the result: 0000 0001 0000 0111 (263). I got a reply to apply 256 * XOR operator on byte number and add the results. I did that and got the value 1:

byte b1 = 1;

byte b2 = 7;

b1 = (byte) (b1 * (256^1));

b2 = (byte) (b2 * (256^0));

System.out.println("b's = " + (b2 + b1));

can the author enlighten me on what I doing worng, or someone suggest an algorithm to do this should-be easy merge?

thanks

[610 byte] By [pwallacea] at [2007-10-2 0:16:07]