From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T20:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: wite an integer to file as binary

On 6/15/07, Jim flip <james@dimsum.tv> wrote:
> Simple problem but I'm not sure of an elegant solution, I can do it but
> all a bit minging.
>
> Basically have a numeric value and want to write the value as a 4 byte
> integer to a binary file.
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> Jim.
>

A first idea - not tested - would be something like this
class IO
  def write_int_4 int
    4.times do
      putc int=int/256
    end
  end
end

You gotta play around with alignment I am afraid, but the basics are there

HTH
Robert

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