Any way to convert a a 2 byte short (normal short) into just a 2 byte string (char*) after using htons on that short. The thing is that the htons method returns an int (4 bytes), how do I put it into a 2 byte string ???
Note: I need to be able to use ntohs on the result to get the original value.
Thanks in advice :D
Ahm, how do you say htons returns a 4-byte integer, on my linux, htons has the prototype of
uint16_t htons(uint16_t hostshort);
Thus you can do
uint16_t value;
value = htons(hostshort);
char *bytes = &value;
// now the first 2 bytes pointed to by "bytes" are the value in network byte order
Which means the return value is just 2 bytes.
Then I think it is quaranteed after htons that such bit representation on the returned value is such that the first byte of the value (((unsigned char *)value)[0]) is the most significant, and the second the least significant.