From: antony.clements@optusnet.com.au   
      
   > So you want ascii value string concatenation rather than just the   
   > decimal value of the 4 byte string?   
      
   i would prefer the decimal value, but the decimal value remains constant   
   regardless of what 4 bytes i pull from the streams, it is always 1306840   
      
   > The currency data type will   
      
   i tried currency, it threw up an error   
      
   > Yes it will, it will give you the real ascii values in a byte array   
   > rather than utf16 unicode in a byte array.   
   >   
   > You seem to be missing the point by a very long way here.   
   >   
   > What EXACTLY do you have as input, what do you expect the intermediary   
   > and final values to be?   
      
   i gave you an example for an input from stream2 "1a2b" which is input into a   
   bytearray, it is meant to return a dynamic number that changes as input   
   changes not a constant. even if the input from the stream was "help" it   
   still returns the same decimal value of 1306840. even if the input is 8   
   bytes "1a2b3c4d" it still returns the exact same value of 1306840. the point   
   i am making is that it doesn't matter what the input is, or how long the   
   input is, i get the same value from both streams regardless. the number that   
   gets returned from stream1 and stream2 must always be different depending on   
   the input.   
      
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