From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T20:54:32+09:00
Subject: Re: negative numbers and binary formats

Robert Klemme wrote:

> After a bit experimenting I came up with this:
>>>[-7].pack("i").unpack("h*").shift.reverse.gsub(/^f+(?=f)/, '')
> 
> => "f9"
> 
>>>[-7000000].pack("i").unpack("h*").shift.reverse.gsub(/^f+(?=f)/, '')
> 
> => "f953040"
> 
> Florian, what do you think?

Very nice, thank you. I wasn't aware of the range limit at first. Only 
thing I would change is using .first instead of .shift. (For clarity)

> Kind regards
>     robert

More regards,
Florian Gross