[erlang-questions] Bit Packing question

[Santosh Kumar]

Hi group,
I was trying to pack a number into 4 bytes and was having a hard time doing
it. Here is what I was trying:

102> Num = 128.

128

103> <<Num:4/bytes>>.

** exception error: bad argument


While this works:


104> <<Num:32>>.

<<0,0,0,128>>


Here the packing into 32 bits works but the packing into 4 bytes fails. Not
sure why.


Any help, much appreciated.


Thanks

Santosh
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