From: "Pedro CĂ´rte-Real" Date: 2006-07-12T18:49:57+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and byte On 7/12/06, Agnieszka Figiel wrote: > How would you go about representing the byte type in Ruby? I have a task > where I neeed to be writing and reading bytes from a tcp socket - so for > instance I might want to send/receive an integer which is 1 byte long, > other times 4 bytes. in Java you can do that easily with the byte type, > so far I have no good idea how to do this in Ruby. Use a String. Pedro.