REBOL [ Library: [ level: 'beginner platform: 'all type: 'tool domain: [compression extension math scientific text text-processing] tested-under: none support: none license: 'lgpl see-also: "ieee.r" ] Title: "bin-to-float" Description: "Binary series to IEEE-32 float series and back" Date: 2006-11-07 Version: 0.0.3 Author: "Glenn M. Lewis" File: %bin-to-float.r Purpose: {Convert a binary file to a series of floats and back} License: "GNU Lesser General Public License (Version 2.1)" Comment: {Relies on 'ieee.r' script found at www.REBOL.org} ] do %ieee.r bin-to-float: func [ "Converts a binary series to a series of floats" dat [binary!] "Binary data to be converted to floats" /local result val ] [ result: copy [] for i ((length? dat) / 4) 1 -1 [ val: from-ieee skip dat (4 * i - 4) insert result val ] result ] float-to-bin: func [ "Converts a series of floats to a binary series" dat [series!] "Float series to be converted to binary" /local result val ] [ result: copy #{} for i (length? dat) 1 -1 [ val: to-ieee pick dat i insert result val ] result ]