in reply to Stumped by a pack/unpack problem

what about reverse pack("f", 440.0)

Update1:
The reason for the difference on MAC and PC is that the real numbers are in the native machine format only. For more information see perldoc -f pack and perldoc perlport.

Update2:
sorry, my first idea works just with unpack("H*", reverse pack("f", 440.0)) vs unpack("H*", pack("f", 440.0))

By the way on my PC pack("f", 440.0) is 00 00 DC 43.
and pack("N", unpack("l", pack("f", 440.0))) just returns 43 dc 00 00

And the fastest solution would be a XS implementation.

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Re^2: Stumped by a pack/unpack problem
by crenz (Priest) on Feb 22, 2005 at 08:14 UTC

    Hmm. That's an interesting result. Can you give me the output of

    print join(" ", map { sprintf "%#02x", $_ }
    unpack("C*",pack("L",0x12345678))), "\n";

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    on your system? XS won't be possible, by the way, as this is intentionally a pure-perl implementation.

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      sure 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12
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Re^2: Stumped by a pack/unpack problem
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Feb 23, 2005 at 11:54 UTC

    I'm not sure why you crossed out your first answer. It is correct; the way to change between big and little endian packed IEEE floats is to use reverse: 
        $ perl -le 'print unpack "H*", reverse pack "f", 440'
    43dc0000

    $ perl -le 'print unpack "H*",         pack "f", 440'
    0000dc43

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    John.

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