title: Hex editor for viewing combined string and float data
body: <p>I have a binary file of unknown format that I need to be able to read. I have access to a program which can 'unpack' the file, but the user interface is terrible for exporting data. I've extracted a few points in an attempt to search for them in the file and discover a pattern, but it's not an efficient method.  What I'm trying to do is match hex patterns to single floating point values, but copying, pasting, translating, and searching the file is not a quick process.</p>
  
  <p>I've looked around quite a bit, and I can't seem to find any hex editors that allow a user to highlight 4 or 8 bytes and display a single or double floating point number in the text view, rather than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mojibake</a>. Maybe I'm not utilizing the full potential of the hex editors I've tried, but I'm stuck. Here's a list of editors I've tried. Does anyone know of an editor that has the features I need, or how to correctly use the ones I've attempted?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>HEdit </li>
  <li>FlexHex</li>
  <li>Hex Editor NEO</li>
  <li>Notepad++ Hex Plugin</li>
  <li>HxD</li>
  </ul>