From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-12-10T07:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Unpack problems

On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> Hi!  I'm having some troubles with unpack that I can't seem to figure
> out.  My test program looks like this:
>
> foo = "\000\000\022\227"
> puts foo.unpack("N")
>
> On linux (ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i386-linux]), the test program  
> gives
> the following output:
>
> 4759
>
> Which is what I expect.  However, on OS X (ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25)
> [powerpc-darwin8.0]), I get the following output:
>
> 2534539264
>
> I can't figure out if I'm doing something stupid, or if there is a
> problem with ruby.  Thanks for the help!

Tiger's Ruby's pack/unpack have reversed endianness.  You'll have to  
build your own Ruby for it to work correctly.

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