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From: "Vladimir Bednikov" <Vladimir.Bednikov@ebor.com>
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Subject: converting floats, ints byte arrays
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:16:29 +0930
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Hi all,

I have a bunch of values I want to send via tcp, instead of converting
each to a string and sending it out, I want to store all the values into
a byte array, ie:
type byte is mod 256;
type byte_array is array(integer range <>) of byte;

The values are for example,

sampleRate : C.C_Float;
scalingFactor : C.C_Float;
numSamples : C.Unsigned;
numSensors : C.Unsigned;
positionChanged : C.Unsigned_Char;
groupBySensors : C.Unsigned_Char;

What I want is an array where the first C.C_Float'size bytes is the sample
rate,
the next C.C_Float'size bytes is the scaling factor, the next
C.Unsigned'size bytes
is the number of samples etc and finally send the byte array out via tcp.

Does anybody out there know of a way to do this.

All help is appreciated,
Thanks in advance