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Pack a Float into Bytes [message #76445]

Thu, 02 June 2011 07:44

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

Does anyone know off-hand how you would pack a floating point
value into four bytes of information and then read it back
again? (Actually, I think I know how to use the FLOAT function
on a byte array to read the data back into a float, but
I don't readily recall how to pack the float into the byte
array to begin with. And I have no time this morning to
puzzle it out.)

Thanks!

Cheers,

David

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