Re^3: HEX to floating point

First, you have a typo in your hex string: '00000034000031b110191403b8811bb1366e4' (the highlighted 1). Second, if you run this on AIX (as I figure from the presence of "AIX" in the shebang path), you most likely don't want the reverse stuff anyway, as AIX typically runs on big-endian hardware, which already matches the binary format of your numbers...

In other words, on AIX, this should work (actually it does — tried it):

my $raw = pack "H*", '00000034000031b10191403b8811bb1366e4';
print "$_\n" for unpack 'NNCCd', $raw;
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Re^4: HEX to floating point by Spooky (Beadle) on Jun 16, 2008 at 18:12 UTC
Thanks so much - it work's great! One other question: what would be the best way to assign each value to a variable name? Again, thanks for your help - I'm definitely sold on PERL even though I'm a novice.	[reply]
Re^5: HEX to floating point by almut (Canon) on Jun 16, 2008 at 18:20 UTC
what would be the best way to assign each value to a variable name? Something like this, for example: `my ($long1, $long2, $byte1, $byte2, $double) = unpack 'NNCCd', $raw;` [download] (of course, choose names as you see fit...)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: HEX to floating point by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jun 16, 2008 at 22:37 UTC
Your next lesson is to understand that it's Perl (the language) or perl (the interpreter) but never PERL. Yes, we are picky about such things:) Unless I state otherwise, all my code runs with strict and warnings	[reply]
Re^6: HEX to floating point by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2008 at 09:25 UTC
Whatever you say - you're the Monk! ...any suggestions on good Perl books?	[reply]
Re^7: HEX to floating point by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jun 17, 2008 at 10:34 UTC