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FLOAT

Purpose:

Macro. Provides an argument for functions specifying 32-bit (4-byte) single-precision data type.

Syntax:

FLOAT

Expansion:

6

Example:

writeb("MYFILE",FLOAT)

 

writes the series in the current Window to the file named MYFILE as 32-bit IEEE standard single-precision floating point values. The above example is equivalent to writeb("MYFILE",6).

Remarks:

FLOAT is not a stand-alone Worksheet function. It can only act as an argument for functions, such as READB, WRITEB, and other functions with data type arguments.

See Also:

DOUBLE

LONG

READB

SBYTE

SINT

UBYTE

UINT

ULONG

WRITEB