[libreoffice-users] type byte in Basic

Hi all,

in looking at 
https://ask.libreoffice.org/de/question/97628/base64-encodedecode/ I 
came across a problem with type "byte" in Basic and do not know whether 
it is a bug or not:

I want to write bytes to a file.
I use
dim oOutputStream as variant
oOutputStream = createUnoService("com.sun.star.io.SequenceOutputStream")
and later on
oOutputStream.writeBytes(...)

If I define   dim nA as byte
then nA = 195 is OK, but writeBytes(array(nA)) fails
and nA = -61 fails, but writeBytes(array(-61)) works.

It seems a variable of type byte can have values in range [0..255], but 
writeBytes can only use values in range [-128..127].

I have used   dim nA as variant   in the end, but wonder about the 
different ranges.

Kind regards
Regina



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