From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-12-21T05:01:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20730] Re: Working with binary strings in Ruby 1.9?

James Gray wrote:
>>    * data[10..20] to extract some bytes efficiently
> 
>   data.bytes.to_a[10..20]
> 
>>    * and use index and rindex to find bytes.
> 
>   data.bytes.to_a.index/rindex

Is there a way to avoid #to_a?

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