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Re: Euphoria equivalent to C typecasting

• Posted by Jonas Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> Aug 02, 2004
• 531 views

Jonas Temple wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Dumb question time.  I'm trying to come up with the Euphoria equivalent
> of the following code that gets a floating point value from a spot
> in memory:
> 
> longBuffer = (long *) (dataBuffer + bufferIndex);
> sprintf(prtBuffer+bufferCount+columnInfo[colIndex].width-11,
>         "%11ld", *longBuffer);
> 
> longBuffer is defined as "long * longBuffer;"
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonas
> 
I apologize, I copied the wrong section.  What I'm really interested in
is in extracting the floating point value from the memory location:

floatBuffer = (float *) (dataBuffer + bufferIndex);
sprintf(prtBuffer+bufferCount+columnInfo[colIndex].width-16,
        "%.8E", *floatBuffer);

Thanks,

Jonas