From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-11-28T23:22:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Pack an arbitrary length string of bytes?

On 28/11/05, speechexpert <speechexpert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I need to write and then read a number of bytes to and from a file...
> It seems the pack method will do it, but
> does anyone know how to invoke it for a string of bytes?
> Thanks in advance,
> John B
>
>
>

string = "some junk"

File.open('/tmp/junk', 'wb') do | file |
  file.print(string)
end

read = File.read('/tmp/junk')

p(string == read)

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