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Re: Pack a Float into Bytes [message #76439 is a reply to message #76437]

Thu, 02 June 2011 09:12

David Fanning
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Wayne Landsman writes:

>
> Is this what you mean?
>
> b = byte(!pi,0,4) ;Convert !pi to a byte array
> print,float(b,0,1) ;Convert back to a floating point number

Wayne, could I do the packing on a little endian
machine and expect the byte array to be unpacked
properly on a big endian machine? Or, would I have
to flip the bytes in this case?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 02 June 2011 11:45
		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 June 2011 09:14
		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 June 2011 09:12
		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 02 June 2011 09:11
		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 June 2011 08:56
		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 June 2011 08:18
		Re: Pack a Float into Bytes By: wlandsman on Thu, 02 June 2011 08:13

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