Encoding and decoding IEEE 754 floats in JavaScript

Question

I need to encode and decode IEEE 754 floats and doubles from binary in node.js to parse a network protocol.

Are there any existing libraries that do this, or do I have to read the spec and implement it myself? Or should I write a C module to do it?

Answer 1

Maybe you can see if this thing does what you want: http://jsfromhell.com/classes/binary-parser

Answer 2

This is the best way to do it: http://github.com/pgriess/node-jspack