The best solution I can see right now: write a very small dll (in C or C++) with only one function. The function should look like this:

void Convert(LPCSTR tpszDestString, LPCSTR tpszSourceString, int tnLength)
{
   float lnAFloat;
   double lnADouble;
   
   //-- Copy the contents of the source string
   //   other the destination number.
   //   This will "convert" to numeric...
   //-- Write the number as string into the dest buffer.
   if (tnLength == 4)
   {
      memcpy((void*)&lnAFloat, (void*)tpszSourceString, 4);
      sprintf(tpszDestString, "%f\0", lnAFloat);
   }
   else
   {
      memcpy((void*)&lnADouble, (void*)tpszSourceString, 8);
      sprintf(tpszDestString, "%f\0", lnADouble);
   }
}

I haven't tested this code, but it should work... maybe with some bug fixes... :)

Vlad

>Hello!
> I'm using low level functions to read (import) a binary file (I think it was created with C/C++). Of course, every thing I read becomes a character. Is there an easy way (I mean a function or something like that) to "cast" a 4-byte character to a VFP Flotant point variable, and a 8-byte to Double?
> I can do the "translation" step by step (I mean bit by bit) in VFP, but it takes too long, considering that I have to do 60,000 or so "interpretation" of this every time I read the file.
>
> TIA.
>
>Ing. Omar Zavala