From: Hee-Sob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2001-07-28T10:53:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18681] Re: Ruby equivalent of htons() and htonl()

Hi,

"Eric Crampton" <EricCrampton@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:ilelr2dnfb.fsf@elmo.atdesk.com...
> Is there any equivalent of the htons() and htonl() functions? Couldn't
> find anything in the pick axe book.

You can define functions like following

def htonl(h)
  [h].pack("L").unpack("N")[0]
end

def htons(h)
  [h].pack("S").unpack("n")[0]
end


Park Hee-Sob.