Conversion to float array

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Jan 1 21:51:13 UTC 2006


Convert these bytes into a 32 bit integer first (e.g., with endian 
conversion if necessary) and then use Float fromIEEE32Bit: value. And 
that is of course assuming that your 32bit floats are in IEEE 754 format.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Cowdery, Bob [UK] wrote:
> I am reading a sequence of bytes from a pipe. The data is actually 32
> bit float values. Is there an easy and efficient way to convert the byte
> array to a float array. Just doing asFloatArray not surprisingly gives
> me an array with each byte converted to a float and what I want is each
> 4 bytes converted to a float.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Bob
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