clojure.core/byte

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 3 Runnable: 0

([x])

Coerce to byte

Examples

by Miles on 2010-09-06 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

(def x (byte-array [(byte 0x43) (byte 0x6c) (byte 0x6f) (byte 0x6a) (byte 0x75) (byte 0x72) (byte 0x65) (byte 0x21)])) #'user/x (String. x) "Clojure!"

by wdhowe on 2020-08-04 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; Casting a string does not work (byte "123") ;;=> Execution error (ClassCastException) at user/eval157 (REPL:1). ;;java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Number ;; Use Java interop instead (Byte/parseByte "123") ;;=> 123 ;; Content originally posted by u/didibus on https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/num

by marceloschreiber on 2024-08-04 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; Supports casting within the range -128 to 127. (byte -128) ;;=> -128 (byte 127) ;; => 127 ;; Casting outside of this range throws IllegalArgumentException (byte 142) ;; => Execution error (IllegalArgumentException) at core/eval11809 (REPL.1). ;; Value out of range for byte: 142 ;; Use unchecked-byte when rounding or truncation is desired

See also

• clojure.core/byte-array (0)
• clojure.core/bytes (0)
• clojure.core/short (0)
• clojure.core/unchecked-byte (1)

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