How to extract the IEEE 754 float representation in JAVA

Question

I'm getting the IEEE754 formatted float value in two integer variables. The integers are 13107 & 17184. The integers are needed to be swapped. Now, how can i extract the float value from these two integers ?. The float value for these integers will be equals to 160.19 (approx.). My code provides a result of 1.1 only ..

              int buffer = 0;
              int float_value = 0;
              float result = 0;
              float value = 0, mantissa = 0;

              if (swap == FALSE) {
                        float_value = rec_buf;
                        float_value = float_value << 16;
                        buffer = rec_buf1;
                        float_value = (float_value | buffer);
                }else{
                        buffer = rec_buf1;
                        float_value = rec_buf;
                        float_value = float_value << 16;
                        float_value = (float_value | buffer);
                }



                String a = Integer.toBinaryString((int)float_value);
                value = Float.valueOf(a);

anyone help me out with this issue

Answer 1

If you have the 32-bit IEEE-754 representation of a float in an int, you can convert back to float using Float.intBitsToFloat.