From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-14T05:47:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie Problems with deflate, base64...

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:21:52PM +0900, Pat Patterson wrote:
> While the Ruby
> 
> deflated = Zlib::Deflate.deflate( "Hello world" )
> myhex = ""
> 1.upto(deflated.length) { |i| myhex << "%02x" % deflated[i] }
> puts myhex
> 
> Shows
> 
> 9cf348cdc9c95728cf2fca49010018ab043d00
> 
> (BTW - if anyone knows a more succinct way to hex encode a string in 
> Ruby, that would be useful)

str = "\001\377"
puts str.unpack("H*")