From: Joey <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T19:50:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and byte

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class Integer
  def bytes
    " "*self
  end
end

send(10.bytes)

j`ey
http://www.eachmapinject.com

On 7/12/06, Pedro C=F4rte-Real <pedrocr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/12/06, Agnieszka Figiel <agnieszka.figiel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How would you go about representing the byte type in Ruby? I have a tas=
k
> > where I neeed to be writing and reading bytes from a tcp socket - so fo=
r
> > 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.
>
>

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