how can I read a REAL48 value from

[dietmar]

Hello Forum,

I tried to make a small application which reads binary data from a file and display these values as a graphic. Now my problem:
How can I read 6 bytes from a binary file (that's no problem) and interpret this value as a REAL48 float or number (or may be REAL32 variable...)
Is there a way to do this OS-independent??

Thanks for your help and your ideas!

Dietmar Schurr

[toma42]

From the change log for php4.0.5:

Added new object VARIANT() to encapsulate values for use with the COM and DOTNET module. Therefore it is now possible to pass values by reference, convert php values to extended variant types (currency, date, idispatch, iunknown, ...) and define the codepage that should be used for unicode - conversion.

That's my best guess, but I don't know how to implement it yet.