Re^2: Float/double to hex?

I want to do some text analysis of stock data. I cannot do what I want using numbers, only alpha or hex. I want to convert the numbers to the four byte hex representation of a float (or eight bytes for a double). I didn't think to check CPAN. I'll try the above code. Thanks to all that replied. Mike

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Re^3: Float/double to hex? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 19, 2013 at 21:18 UTC
I know a float is a four byte value. I want to have the hex string representation of those four bytes. If (2**16) is 65536, I want 65536 to be 0x0000ffff (or 0xffff0000, whatever order). Mike	[reply]
Re^4: Float/double to hex? by edwyr (Sexton) on Feb 19, 2013 at 22:03 UTC
Here is what I am looking for (running inside "perl -d -e 1"): x 2*16 65536 x unpack('h', pack('i', 65535)) 'ffff0000' $x = 1 / 7 x $x 0.142857142857143 x unpack('h*', pack('f', $x)) '529421e3'	[reply]