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Re: converting 8 bytes to a double [message #2504]

Wed, 03 August 1994 18:25

Geoff.Sobering
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Registered: June 1994

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In article <318lqdINN5n5@i32.sma.ch>, stl@sma.ch (Stephen Strebel) wrote:

> sorry about that. COnverting 4 bytes to a long (as in the lasting
> posting) isn't really what I wanted to find out about. I really need to
> convert 8 bytes into a double.

Should work the same as with byte->long.

new_double = double( existing_byte_array, 0, 1 )

and the reverse operation:

new_byte_array = byte( existing_double, 0, 8 )

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Geoff Sobering (Geoff.Sobering@nih.gov)
In Vivo NMR Research Center
National Institutes of Health

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