Question

I need to convert float to int (single precision, 32 bits) like:
‘float: 2 (hex: 40000000) to int: 1073741824’. Any idea how to implement that?
I was looking for it in msdn help but with no result.

Answer 1

If your aiming for versions less than .Net 4 where BitConverter isn’t available, or you want to convert floats to 32 bit ints, use a memory stream:

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Stream
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main (string [] args)
    {
      float
        f = 1;

      int
        i;

      MemoryStream
        s = new MemoryStream ();

      BinaryWriter
        w = new BinaryWriter (s);

      w.Write (f);

      s.Position = 0;

      BinaryReader
        r = new BinaryReader (s);

      i = r.ReadInt32 ();

      s.Close ();

      Console.WriteLine ("Float " + f + " = int " + i);
    }
  }
}

It is a bit long winded though.