Greetings!
I am receiving two values that look like two short integers but which in reality are two 16-bit halves of a 32-bit IEEE float. I'm looking for a way to concatenate the two 16-bit halves and then be able to work with the result as a float. Example: 
my $var1 = 17232; # really 0100001101010000
my $var2 = 12822; # really 0011001000010110
my $var3 = $var1 << 16 | $var2;  # 01000011010100000011001000010110

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I am looking for a way to convert or otherwise have $var3 recognized as 208.19565 and not an integer like 1129329174. Anyone have an idea? Thanks!

In reply to 32bit float from two halves by thatmguy

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