Re: 64bit IEEE format number[Scanned]

I have tried using functions such as base_convert($var,16,2), and can get the binary string, but I can't get much further. Do you think octdec may be a way? I use this page to check my conversion http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/courses/cs341/IEEE-754.html I may have to write a function to do the same as this page does, but I hoped that this conversion was one somebody must have done before. "Michael Egan" <MEgan@3tc.org.uk> wrote in message news:9926D602EE82FB4FB203E442253043C402FDC8@snip-exch.snipdom.co.uk... Have you tried the base_convert or octdec functions? Michael Egan -----Original Message----- From: ben [mailto:duffy_ben@hotmail.com] Sent: 21 October 2002 08:42 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] 64bit IEEE format number[Scanned] I hope someone can help, Is there a function to convert an 8 byte value read from a file into a real number ? I have tried using the built-in functions, but get meaningless answers. I need to convert for example 00 00 00 00 00 20 5c 40 into the value 112.5 Any help would be welcome. Thanks. Ben Duffy. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php