From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T19:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and byte

Agnieszka Figiel wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> 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 Array#pack to put your bytes/integers/etc in a string. Send and 
receive strings. Use String#unpack to extract bytes/integers/etc from 
the string.

Good luck.
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