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Request #36849 hex to float request
Submitted: 2006-03-24 21:17 UTC Modified: 2015-01-09 00:15 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
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From: esri at godseyfamily dot com Assigned: ajf (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: Liinux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-24 21:17 UTC] esri at godseyfamily dot com 
Description:
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Would simply like to input a hex value and get the float of it back.  The settype of course does not work, or any kind of casting.  A function that parses the binary string introduces a huge amount of overhead when I do 1024 of these values in a row.  I would think that any programming language would have this basic capability.  I'm getting raw data, and a data type that it needs to be converted to.

I checked and didn't see this requested, though I'm sure it has been.

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 [2006-03-28 00:24 UTC] esri at godseyfamily dot com 
$num = 0x3F800000;
   printf("%f",$num);

I would expect a return value of:
1.00000

What I am getting is the integer value:
1065353216.000000
 [2006-03-28 00:27 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
>What I am getting is the integer value

And the reason is:

#php -r 'echo 0x3f800000;'
1065353216
 [2006-03-28 01:15 UTC] esri at godseyfamily dot com 
That does not change my request for a feature.  There is no way of converting to type float or double from a raw form.  This is what I'm asking for.

0x3F800000 should be able to be converted to 1.000000

This is a feature request, as indicated in the Category.
 [2015-01-09 00:15 UTC] ajf@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues -Assigned To: +Assigned To: ajf
 [2015-01-09 00:15 UTC] ajf@php.net 
Use unpack().
 
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