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From:
John W. Krahn
Date:
September 23, 2009 12:17
Subject:
Re: decimal to binary?
Message ID:
4ABA7442.8010508@shaw.ca
Bryan R Harris wrote:
> 
> I need to convert a number like this:   -3205.0569059
> ... into an 8-byte double (big and little endian), e.g. 4f 3e 52 00 2a bc 93
> d3  (I just made up those 8 byte values).
> 
> Is this easy in perl?  Are long and short ints easy as well?

$ perl -le'print unpack "H*", pack "d", -3205.0569059'
e626c5221d0aa9c0



John
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The programmer is fighting against the two most
destructive forces in the universe: entropy and
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