double to hex string & hex string to double

Question

What I\'m trying to do is to convert a double to hex string and then back to double.

The following code does conversion double-to-hex string.

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Answer 1

char *doubleToRawString(double x) {
    const size_t bytesInDouble = 8;

    union {
        double value;
        unsigned char bytes[bytesInDouble];
    } u;

    u.value = x;

    char *buffer = new char[bytesInDouble * 2 + 1];
    unsigned char *input = u.bytes;
    char *output = buffer;

    for(int i = 0; i < bytesInDouble; ++i) {
        sprintf(output, "%02hhX", *input);

        ++input;
        output += 2;
    }

    return buffer;
}

double rawStringToDouble(const char *input) {
    const size_t bytesInDouble = 8;

    union {
        double value;
        unsigned char bytes[bytesInDouble];
    } u;

    unsigned char *output = u.bytes;

    for(int i = 0; i < bytesInDouble; ++i) {
        sscanf(input, "%02hhX", output);

        input += 2;
        ++output;
    }

    return u.value;
}

This uses the non-standard hh modifier. If you don't want to use that, use:

unsigned int tmp = *input;
sprintf(output, "%02X", tmp);

unsigned int tmp;
sscanf(input, "%02X", &tmp);
*output = tmp;