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From:
Uri Guttman
Date:
September 23, 2009 13:49
Subject:
Re: decimal to binary?
Message ID:
87k4zpqtde.fsf@quad.sysarch.com
>>>>> "BM" == Bob McConnell <rvm@CBORD.com> writes:
BM> OK, that I can understand. However, I don't see where that was
BM> expressed or implied in the original query. Are you assuming that
BM> every current architecture and Perl implementation uses that
BM> format to store double precision numbers? Is that a safe
BM> assumption?
ieee float format is about the only way anyone does floats today. but
pack actually doesn't even care about the float format. it just copies
the internal float to a place where it can be accessed as a string of
bytes (the string slot in the scalar). you can take any byte string you
want and unpack back into the float slot. the only restriction is the
size and that is usually 8 bytes (a double which is perl's standard
float size). pack supports single precision (4 bytes) as well as long
doubles if your machine supports them.
as for whether this is what the OP wanted, note that he since posted
that he is reading perlpacktut for his answers. someone else already
posted the pack format needed but i wanted him to rtfm and learn more
about pack.
uri
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