in reply to packing a floating point

Spooky:

I'd use the pack function, as described in:

perldoc -f pack

...roboticus

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Re^2: packing a floating point
by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 21, 2010 at 09:47 UTC
    To be fair, the doco for pack() and unpack() isn't exactly the easiest in the world to understand!