From: raymondpendergraph@... (Ray Pendergraph)
Date: 2004-10-08T23:04:44+09:00
Subject: parsing data and displaying hex

I am sort of a novice to Ruby so I will just start out with a
simplified example what I want to do. I have an array with two bytes
in it [0x03,0x9A] and depending on what the byte order of the file
(not the architecture) is want to display these bytes as 922 or 39427
(both unsigned shorts). I want to do this without reversing the index
on the array or anything goofy like that. Whats the most proper way to
do this in Ruby? I suspect my solution lies somewhere in pack... I
toyed with it briefly but decided to ask.