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Re: From Bytes to Doubles, etc. [message #11986]

Sun, 21 June 1998 00:00

Justin[1]
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Registered: June 1998

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csaute3@alumni.umbc.edu wrote in message
<6m91i4$2n6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> Justin,
>
> You posted asking how to convert binary data
> back to the original numbers. you said there are only a few numbers
> that you want to convert and you know where they exist in the array.
> This is what I do:
<snip>
> ; to convert to long where 0 is my offset in the byte array
> number = long(data, 0)
>

Cathy,

I think this was case of not reading the manual - I didn't know of the
offset argument for the conversion functions in IDL, my apologies! Thanks
for bothering to reply, this has saved me a lot of work and messy coding -

Justin

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