NodeJS - Convert hexadecimal to float

Question

That may sound like a weird struggle and actually easy to do, but I cannot find a working way to convert an hexidecimal in a string format into a float.

My exemple is for instance: 406ea716

If I convert it using one of the following website, I get 3.728948.

http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/~gregstoll/floattohex/

I tried every single piece of code I found on the internet, but it won't return the same result.

Does it exist a module in NodeJS to perform the same conversion? If not, what can I do?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. try this.

Buffer('406ea716','hex').readFloatBE(0)

3.7289481163024902