Re: [MacPerl] Getting floating point numbers from binary files

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

"Christopher F. Blanford" <blanf001@tc.umn.edu> writes:
>suited for this task, but I can't figure out how to get the program to
>read in the bytes as numbers:
>
>open(FILE,$filename);

read(FILE, $numbah, 4);
$nr = unpack("f", $numbah);

Matthias

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