PHP 4.0 Bug #6884: problem getting a double variable from binary file

From: heinrich@noiseconcept.de Operating system: Win2k/98/Redhat6.1 PHP version: 4.0.2 PHP Bug Type: Variables related Bug description: problem getting a double variable from binary file Hi! Probably this isn't a true bug, bit I couldn't find ANY one (tried Newsgroups/IRC/Doc's..) who could explain this to me: I'm reading a price list from a file in which there are (beyond other stuff) Product name and price saved. Extracting the Product name is no problem but the price is saved as a 8byte-double variable. So I used: $price=unpack("d",substr($contents,211,8)); But this results in absolutely strange values like 8.3...+E-311 and so on. My file is valid since I've also programmed this using Borland Delphi. There I use the command "move" to move the part of the memory where the file buffer is saved directly to the address of a double variable. There it works quite fine. So - what's wrong? (Although I'm KNOW that it's an 8byte double I tried with any other decoding method from unpack like float, single and so on... Nothing worked.. Please contact me If you know anything about that, it's quite important for me :-} Tnx a lot! - bye!