From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-12-21T12:16:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20742] Re: Working with binary strings in Ruby 1.9?

On Dec 20, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Michael Selig wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:43:32 +1100, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net 
> > wrote:
>
>> On Dec 20, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>>
>>> The code I am working on is parsing files with binary content  
>>> (such as
>>> pictures, machine code, etc.). With 1.8, I could easily use
>>>
>>>   * File.open{|f| f.read} to read the contents,
>>
>> In 1.9 use:
>>
>>   File.binread(�)
>
> Alternatively you can specify 'encoding: "BINARY"' eg:
>
> 	File.open(<file>, encoding: "BINARY") {|f| f.read}
> or shorter
> 	File.read(<file>, encoding: "BINARY")

I don't think you want to do that.  You need to set a mode like "rb"  
to also shut off line ending conversion on Windows.

James Edward Gray II