From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-05-01T22:52:21+09:00
Subject: Shortcut for [string].pack("p*").unpack("l").first ?

Hi all,

If I want to get the underlying pointer address of a
Ruby string, I can do this:

string = "hello"
[string].pack("p*").unpack("l").first # 43329024

I thought there was a shortcut for this.  Originally I thought
perhaps object_id was identical, but that doesn't seem to be
the case.  Maybe that was immediate types only.

Anyway, is there a shorter way?  Or am I remembering
incorrectly?

Thanks,

Dan


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