From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T01:45:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Broken pack/unpack workaround

Here's a simplistic solution:

broken = (1 == [1].pack('n')[0])
if broken
  class String
    alias_method :broken_unpack, :unpack
    def unpack(spec)
      return broken_unpack(spec.tr('nvNV', 'vnVN'))
    end
  end
  class Array
    alias_method :broken_pack, :pack
    def pack(spec)
      return broken_pack(spec.tr('nvNV', 'vnVN'))
    end
  end
end

p([1].pack('n'))
p([1].pack('v'))
p([1].pack('N'))
p([1].pack('V'))

Paul.