From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T06:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary numbers

On Aug 1, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Dale Martenson wrote:

> def binum(bs)
>   result = 0
>   bs.unpack("cCC").each {|b| result = (result << 8) | b }
>   result
> end

That's just crying out for inject():

   bs.unpack("cCC").inject(0) { |res, b| (res << 8) | b }

;)

James Edward Gray II