From: Akif Tokuz <akifusenet@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T20:07:10+09:00
Subject: Re: reading byte stream from network

unknown wrote:

> Yeah, look at String#reverse in conjuction w/ unpack.  One of the
> coolest and most confusing aspects of ruby (for me as a C programmer
> anyway) is the equivalence between strings and unstructured binary.
> It's confusing b/c buffers of characters in C in a way have "duck
> typing" as you usually read them in as an unsigned char *.  Usually
> with OO languages other than ruby, you have to go through some madness
> to get unstructured data into a string, or vice versa.


I didnt think it would work in the first run. But hell it worked!

You should have seen the faces of my friend when i showed them this 
single line is actually equal to that ^+%+%&^+%^+ lines of C code:=) 
Respect...

def processTrackDataMessage(message) 
trackDataMsg=message.unpack('SIS3D2CDSDSDSDS3A6S36DS10D4S2ISA36A12A16IS2A36A12A36A12')
end

Thanks for the tip guys.

Akif,

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