John Gunther wrote:
> What technique can I use to take an 8-byte double precision value, as
> stored internally, and assign its value to a PHP float variable without
> having the bytes misinterpreted as a character string.
Does it get misinterpreted, or do you just want to be sure?
The documentation says -
"Some references to the type "double" may remain in the manual. Consider
double the same as float; the two names exist only for historic reasons."
Does this cover your case?
Iv
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