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Michael Ray-Von YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	interpreting 4 bytes as a double Apr 14th, 2010, 7:47pm   i'm pulling bytes off of a data stream using myClient.read() and I can pack those 4 bytes into a long, but I dont know how to reinterpret the data in the long as a double.  If it helps, the double im supposed to get is BIG-endian.  Any thoughts?     thanks!

Lie Ryan YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 26	Re: interpreting 4 bytes as a double Reply #1 - Apr 14th, 2010, 9:06pm   Use Double.longBitsToDouble(longBit) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#longBitsToDouble(l...

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: interpreting 4 bytes as a double Reply #2 - Apr 15th, 2010, 1:22am   Wasn't that question answered in 4-Byte Floats thread (mmm, close, it was about floats, not doubles.) BTW, 4 bytes fit in an int, no need for a long there. And if you need a double, just cast the float to double.