How can I change a Perl floating-point value to a bit vector?

[none]

I'd like to do bit manipulation on Perl floating-point values. Is there
any way that I can get the floating-point values into some sort of bit
vector?

Thanks,
-Mike

 

[ctcgag]

I'd like to do bit manipulation on Perl floating-point values. Is there
any way that I can get the floating-point values into some sort of bit
vector?

my @x = unpack "b*", pack "d", 1/3;

Xho

 

[none]

my @x = unpack "b*", pack "d", 1/3;

This worked perfectly! Thanks! I tried chaining pack and unpack before,
but I was assigning the result to a scalar and so didn't get the right
answer.

Thanks,
-Mike

 

[ctcgag]

This worked perfectly! Thanks!

Hold on, not so fast!

I tried chaining pack and unpack before,
but I was assigning the result to a scalar and so didn't get the right
answer.

But that is right! I was only loading the first element of @x, and that
one element is a string of ones and zeros. So I should have used a scalar
instead.

my @x=split //, unpack "b*", pack "d", 1/3;

Is what I really meant.

Xho