From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-01-22T12:37:25-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01163] Pack options


Hi all,

Just a quick question about "pack".  In the source, there a couple
of options that aren't in the documentation.  Here are my guesses:

        M  ? Some kind of encoding, uses =\n as delimiter?
        U  UTF?
        Z  ASCII string (like "a", but null-padded on pack, no nulls on unpack)
        e  single-precision float, ``VAX'' (little-endian) byte order
        E  double-precision float, ``VAX'' (little-endian) byte order
        g  single-precision float, ``network'' byte order
        G  double-precision float, ``network'' byte order

Can someone enlighten me on the "M" flag? Internally, it uses a
routine called "qpencode" if that rings any bells...

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