title: Need to initialize a byte[] array with ascii blank (i.e. 0x20 OR " ")
body: <p>Hello all Ol' Guy Newbie here ... 
  I've defined a string=> final static String Blank     = " " ;
  and a byte array 
  static byte[] LU62_Partner    = new byte[8] ;</p>
  
  <p>Further down in my logic I want to initialize the byte[] array with blanks</p>
  
  <pre><code>     // Prep LU6.2 Session  
   for ( ndx=0 ; ndx &lt; 8 ; ++ndx)
     { 
       LU62_Partner[ndx] = Blank.getBytes() ;    // initialize the the LU6.2 partner name byte array w/blanks  
     }
   LU62_Partner = APPC_Partner.getBytes() ;      // convert string array to byte array 
                                                 // if the appc-partner name &lt; 8 bytes, rightmost bytes
                                                 // will be padded with blanks 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However upon compilation I get the following error
  src\LU62XnsCvr.java:199: incompatible types
  found   : byte[]
  required: byte
           LU62_Partner[ndx] = Blank.getBytes() ;  </p>
  
  <p>Again I'm confused... I was under the impression that the method getBytes() would convert a string into a byte. 
  Thanks very much again </p>
  
  <p>Guy </p>