hex string to floating point (newbie)

[zif]

Thanks to all for your solutions and remarks. The source of
floating point numbers is an industrial controller
(GE Fanuc PLC), which stores them in 32bit single
precission IEEE-standard format, and I would use either
PC or Mac as recipients.

Thanks,
zif

zif <zf_acs at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9397bfd5.0303170547.78bad0af at posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I would appreciate if somebody could help me solve my problem:
> I need to translate a hex string '3f8ccccd' to it's
> floating point value.
>
> Regards,
> zif