Here's one for the cadre of real programmers, of whom I'm not a member:
I have a string of information - partially binary, partially ASCII - that
represents a number of reads from an electric meter. The site name, dates,
etc. are stored in ASCII; record length & type designators in 2-byte binary
integers; and interval data is stored in 4-byte IEEE floating point.
I read this datafile in, using Lewis Sellers' ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
excellent CFX_binaryR tag, and process arrays of the resulting bytes for
display based on an ISO-standard datafile format.
Problem: Floating point conversion. The ASCII is trivial (#chr(byte)#); and
I wrote a custom tag that converts the 2-byte binInts to decimal (anyone
interested?) - but the floating-point-to-decimal conversion has me pulling
out the remains of my already-endangered hair.
Anyone have any pointers on this? CFX tags, formulae, anything?
TIA...
Brandon Whitaker
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