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convert 4 bytes into a long [message #2533]

Thu, 28 July 1994 08:38

stl
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Registered: February 1994

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Hello,

I am trying to find out if I can convert 4 byte value into 1 long value.
For example
b = byte(4)
set all their values to something, and convert this intire array into a
long value.

I presume this is possible, I just cannot think of how to do it and my
attempts fail one after another.

(the reason I am doing this is because I am returning data from external
C programs (in Shared Object libraries) and structures tend to get byte
padded, so I return a huge byte array. But now I got to pick out all
the numbers: doubles,floats, etc... Yes I now their position and order
exactly.)

thanks for any help,

-stephen
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