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Re: bitconverter

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From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 04:29
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:55:39 -0400, Kevin Dean wrote:

> As for parsing out doubles etc. from it, I'm afraid
> I can't think of any way for doing that.

You can do that by packing the bytes into a long value in the order of 
your choosing using shift and masking operators and then converting the 
long value to a double using Double.longBitsToDouble().

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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