From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T01:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Converting hex or dec to ascii ?

On 13.04.2007 17:47, mrpink wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a variable like:
> 
> test = 0x65 0x78

What exactly is this supposed to mean?  This is not valid Ruby:

$ ruby -ce 'test = 0x65 0x78'
-e:1: parse error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting $

> and I wanna have this converted or outputet to-----> ex
> 
> which is the ascii code of 0x65 (=e) and 0x78 (=x) . But how can I do 
> this ?
> 
> test = 0x65 doesn't, test = "0x65" doesn't test = String(0x65) also 
> doesn't...
> 
> can someone please help me with this?

Very likely, if we know what your input is.

	robert