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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Converting Hex to Float (and vise versa) (overly simple)

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on Feb 08, 2004 at 02:18 UTC ( [id://327432]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Converting Hex to Float (and vise versa) (overly simple)
in thread Converting Hex to Float (and vise versa)

The reason has nothing to do with pack or unpack, it is the same reason that printing a hex constant doesn't print exactly what you see. 

print 0x428c0000;

1116471296

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Perl automatically converts hex values (as indicated by 0x...) to it internal (binary) representation when parsing the source code. It becomes just another perl number.

Whenever perl prints out a number, it prints the ascii representation of it's decimal value, unless you specifically state that you want it printed in some other form. Ie. using printf or sprintf or similar.

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