conversion - ASCII hex to float in c++

Question

I have a string containing, for example "3F800000".

This is a hexadecimal representation of the float 1.0 Only I can't seem to find any convenient way of making this conversion in C++. Suggestions?

Answer 1

Assuming 32-bit int and float ,

unsigned int x;
std::stringstream ss;
ss << std::hex << "3F800000";
ss >> x;
return reinterpret_cast<float&>(x);