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Make Double Function
Coerce Make Class

Public Function MakeDouble( _
    ByVal vValue As Variant _
    ) As Variant

"Make String From Double" or "Coerce Double To String"
Coerce a Double (precision floating-point numeric) value into an 8-character string.
Return an eight-character string containing the in-memory representation of the Double value vValue.
Similar to coercing a double value into character string in the C language.
Same as the MKD function in earlier versions of Microsoft Basic.
Inverse of the CoerceToDouble function.

Examples: 
    MakeDouble(0) = String$(8, 0)
    MakeDouble(1) = String$(6, 0) + Chr$(240) + Chr$(63)
    MakeDouble(2) = String$(7, 0) + Chr$(64)
    MakeDouble(2.5) = String$(6, 0) + Chr$(4) + Chr$(64)
    MakeDouble("2") = String$(7, 0) + Chr$(64)
    IsNull(MakeDouble(Null)) = True
See also: 
    MakeDoubleFast Function
    CoerceToDouble Function
    MakeDate Function
    MakeSingle Function
    LODWORD Function
    HIDWORD Function
vValue: The Double value whose bytes are to be interpreted as a string. vValue can be a numeric value, a date value, a numeric string, or a date string. Function returns Null if vValue is Null. Function returns an empty string if vValue cannot be fixed up to a number.

Note: This function converts the string representation of the value to Unicode using the default code page of the system.
v1.3 Change: Removed 16-bit support from this function.

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