Re: Working with internal data formats

John Gunther wrote:

What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without having the bytes misinterpreted as a character string.

Does it get misinterpreted, or do you just want to be sure? The documentation says - "Some references to the type "double" may remain in the manual. Consider double the same as float; the two names exist only for historic reasons." Does this cover your case? Iv