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The following code can be used to convert a byte array (containing the bytes of a long) into a long.

	public static long byteArrayToLong(byte[] bytes) {
		long l = 0;
		for (int i=0; i<8; i++) {
			l <<= 8;
			l ^= (long) bytes[i] & 0xff;
		}
		return l;
	}

This is the reverse of “How to convert a long to a byte array“.

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