[Gambas-user] Hex string to float

[nando]

I'm sorry, but I cannot see this as correct.
Saving a 4 byte value in integer format then
reading in the same 4 byte value and place it in an float variable
performs no conversion.
Conversion is needed due to how we want to interpret the type of data.



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From: hjherbert at ...20...
To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:21:39 +0100
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Hex string to float

> ... For 32 Float use the "Single" data type.
> See http://gambasdoc.org/help/cat/datatypes
> See http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/type/single
> 
> The example conversion may be done by this way:
> 
> PUBLIC SUB DemoSingle()
> DIM i AS Integer
> DIM f AS Single
> DIM hH AS File
> 
> i = &h3fd55555&
> OPEN "/tmp/hexfloat.tmp" FOR WRITE CREATE AS #hH
> WRITE #hH, i
> CLOSE #hH
> OPEN "/tmp/hexfloat.tmp" FOR READ AS #hH
> READ #hH, f
> CLOSE #hH
> PRINT "i=", i, "HEX", Hex$(i), "  f=", f
> END
> 
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