char representation of a double

[senorbuckwheat]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to convert a double to the char representation, ie. put double, which is eight bytes, to char[8];
Example:

double nDb = 12.34;
char szDb[8];

szdB would hold the character representation of nDb which might look something like:
[0] 0''
[1] 0''
[2] 0''
[3] 0''
[4] 0''
[5] 0''
[6] 51'3'
[7] 64'@'

Thank you

 

[Pappy1942]

Hi,
How about a union?

union dbltoch
{
double d;
unsigned char c[8];
};

Hope this helps. Pappy
You learn something everyday.

 

[Zyrenthian]

memcpy would be how I would approach it. But you could also just cast it. Just remember there can be null terminators in spots you dont want and it wont print out properly. Also, for safety, i would use char[9] and have element 8 set to zero.

Matt