From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2007-05-25T05:23:21+09:00
Subject: Re: sending data, no strings via socket

Maybe "pack/unpack" 

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_array.html#Array.pack

can solve your problem ?

Best regards,

Axel 
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Fri, 25 May 2007 05:02:49 +0900
Von: Javier None <javierisassi@gmail.com>
An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Betreff: sending data, no strings via socket

> I'm trying to send data like
> 
> typedef struct{
>    u_int32_t type;
>    u_int8_t len;
>    u_int8_t * buf;
> }
> 
> over a tcp socket using ruby.
> 
> Anything I push over the socket comes out the other end as a string..
> 
> in Ruby..
> 
> data = 10
> socket = TCPSocket.new(home,port)
> socket.write(data)
> 
> on the other end I get
> receieved byte dump
> 0000: 31 30                10
> 
> which is the ascii for 10. How can I tell Ruby to send the 0x10?
> even if I write
> data = 0x10
> on the other side I get:
> 0000: 31 36                16
> Which again, is the ascii getting send, not the data.
> thanks for any help.
> 
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