From: Melissa Silas <beingthexemplarylists@...>
Date: 2007-06-18T10:52:11+09:00
Subject: healp reading / writing binary strings.

Hey, I'm looking for some help with reading / writing binary string.
Just need some help understanding what exactly is going on..

if I have a string like:
str = "\t\005\001\006\afoo\006\abar"

Or if I have something like:
str =
"\t\025\001\004\001\004\002\004\003\004\004\004\005\004\006\004\a\004\b\004\t\004\n"

What exactly kind of format is that? How do I parse it / read binary
data from it? And how can I write the same type of string from say an
array? ["foo","bar"]?

thanks
Melissa

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