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From: weisberg@hpccc.HP.COM (Len Weisberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Binary floating point?
Message-ID: <12170004@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 May 90 00:53:05 GMT
Organization: HP Corp Computing & Services
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Is there a way to handle binary floating point data?

I would expect to use pack and unpack, but there are no format letters
for float.

Actually what I am trying to do is read a file written on a VAX with
a program running on an HP9000 (which uses IEEE floating point.
Unless I am missing something, it looks like a C program.
Any ideas?  Any chance for adding float (and double) to (un)?pack \?

- Len Weisberg    HP Corporate Computing & Services   weisberg@hpccc
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