[comp.lang.perl] Binary floating point?

weisberg@hpccc.HP.COM (Len Weisberg) (05/08/90)

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
  in Palo Alto    mailstop 20CH    telnet 857-2495     HPDesk hp0000

lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (05/09/90)

In article <12170004@hpccc.HP.COM> weisberg@hpccc.HP.COM (Len Weisberg) writes:
: 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 \?

It's already in my Todo list.

Larry