| Subject: | fix for floating point values |
| Date: | Tue, 6 Jan 2015 06:11:17 -0600 |
| To: | bug-Palm-ThinkDB [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | alan.wehmann [...] gmail.com |
The latest version is:
Palm-ThinkDB-0.02
It does not properly decode/encode floating point numbers coming from
a SmatList-To-Go (SLTG) database. The author's README file says this
is so.
I have found that SLTG is using a standard representation for 32 bit
floating point (FP) numbers. Unpacking with the code "f>" in the Perl
"unpack" function gives the correct FP result in Perl. The same code
can be used to pack the floating point number when writing a file to
be transferred back to the Palm handheld.
My system information is:
Darwin Alans-Air.lan 14.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Sep 19 00:26:44 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2782.1.97~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
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Alan Wehmann
Alan.Wehmann@gmail.com