C# BitConverter ToSingle

Description

BitConverter ToSingle returns a single-precision floating point number converted from four bytes at a specified position in a byte array.

Syntax

BitConverter.ToSingle has the following syntax.

public static float ToSingle(
  byte[] value,
  int startIndex
)

Parameters

BitConverter.ToSingle has the following parameters.

• value - An array of bytes.
• startIndex - The starting position within value.

Returns

BitConverter.ToSingle method returns A single-precision floating point number formed by four bytes beginning at startIndex.

Example

The following code example converts elements of Byte arrays to Single values with the ToSingle method.

using System;/* w  ww .j a va  2 s.c om*/

class BytesToSingleDemo
{
    public static void Main( )
    {
        byte[ ] bytes = {
             77,   6, 158,  63,  80,   6, 158,  63,  30,  55, 
            190, 121, 255, 255, 127, 255, 255, 127, 127,   1, 
              0, 128, 127 };

        float value = BitConverter.ToSingle( bytes, 0 );

        Console.WriteLine(value );
    }
}

The code above generates the following result.