src/Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common/Analysis/Payloads/FloatEncoder.cs

using Lucene.Net.Util;
using System.Globalization;

namespace Lucene.Net.Analysis.Payloads
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// Encode a character array <see cref="float"/> as a <see cref="BytesRef"/>.
    /// <para/>
    /// NOTE: This was FloatEncoder in Lucene
    /// </summary>
    /// <seealso cref="PayloadHelper.EncodeSingle(float, byte[], int)"/>
    public class SingleEncoder : AbstractEncoder, IPayloadEncoder
    {
        public override BytesRef Encode(char[] buffer, int offset, int length)
        {
            float payload = float.Parse(new string(buffer, offset, length), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); //TODO: improve this so that we don't have to new Strings
            byte[] bytes = PayloadHelper.EncodeSingle(payload);
            BytesRef result = new BytesRef(bytes);
            return result;
        }
    }
}