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Re: Pack a Float into Bytes [message #76433]

Thu, 02 June 2011 11:45

Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article <MPG.28514fa26bc10c4d9898fd@news.giganews.com>,
David Fanning <news@idlcoyote.com> wrote:

> 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

Can you elaborate? A FLOAT is 4 bytes of data.

You can just write it unformatted. Is that what you mean?

Ken

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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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