Storing an int16 number into two int8 number

Hi All

I am new to use Matlab, and I have question regarding the data type.

I have create an array of type int8, to represent a string of byte(8 bits) in a communication channel. Some of the data written into this array may take 2 bytes, i.e number greater than 127.

So my question is, let say I have created an array of int8 of length 8, and I would like to store the number 600 in binary format in the cell 3 and 4 in this array, how to do it please?

The result I am expecting is Data = [00 00 02 58 00 00 00 00] (in Hex representation)

Thanks in advance Regards Victor

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

typecast(int16(600),'uint8')

[Victor]

Thanks for your quick reply.

It works.

Btw, I would like to know whether Matlab can understand descending order? For example, I would like to address two cells in an array, Data(6:5).

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

Data([6 5])

or

Data(6:-1:5)