On 8-Jun-06, at 8:20 PM, Harris Reynolds wrote: > What is the quickest way to convert 8 bytes to a Float object? > > thanks for any help, > > ~harris Probably String#unpack where the string contains the 8 bytes. You will have to pick the right one of the template directive depending on the byte order of your data. Mike -- Mike Stok <mike / stok.ca> http://www.stok.ca/~mike/ The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.