Has anyone discovered how do perform the equivalent of CVD (convert data
type "Double" to a string), MKD$ (make a "Double" data type from a
string), plus the "single" versions of these commands too.

The CVar and CStr functions in VBWIN do not seem to do the trick.  I want
to be able to turn a single precision floating point value into a 4-byte
"packed" string (and back again), and a double precision number into an
8-byte "packed" string (and back again) for compatibility with something
I wrote a while ago in VBDOS.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

writes:

Try:

mystring = str(mydouble)

dim mydouble as double
mydouble = val(mystring)

TTFN

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