From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T04:28:53+09:00
Subject: Re: how to convert binary array into integer

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, hsun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know the api to convert a binary array into integer:
>
> for example: 00 00 00 0A => 10
>
> thanks

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   p( [0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xA].pack('c*').unpack('N').first )

   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   10

hth.

-a
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