From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2004-07-26T03:31:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading binary data with String or StringIO?

On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:09, Gianni Jacklone wrote:
> I need to read a binary string into memory and parse it using methods 
> similar to Java's DataInputStream 
> (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/DataInputStream.html)
> 
> I stumbled upon StringIO which I think is the closet thing to what I 
> need? Anyone know of any good documentation for using StringIO, or 
> dealing with binary data and parsing in general?

Look at String#pack and String#unpack

Best regards, 
Alexey Verkhovsky