From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2004-11-27T03:01:19+09:00
Subject: Re: std method to convert string of bytes into Integer?

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com>, 2004-11-26 17.19 CET]
> I've a string of bytes, represented as a String, most significant byte
> first, and I want to convert it to an Integer (actually, they will
> usually be big enough that they will end up as a Bignum).
> 
> I thought String#unpack, but it won't deal with anything larger than 4
> or 8 bytes, it seems.
> 
> I don't think String#to_i will do it either.
> 
> I've written such a method myself, but I'd like to not duplicate the std
> lib is possible!

I don't know if this is correct:

"01234567890123456789".unpack("H20")
=> ["30313233343536373839"]

Good luck.