From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T07:59:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket send functions only allow you to send strings?

On 9/4/07, Ryan Parmeter <parkingmeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am writing a small TimeP (RFC 868) server to sync time with some
> networking equipment.  The equipment that shall go nameless requires the
> use of UDP.
>
> As far as I can tell, my only option to write to a UDPSocket is to use
> the send method, which takes a string.  I need to send a 32bit integer
> representing the date in a UDP packet and I'd love to use something
> like:
>
> myUDPsocket.send( Time.now.to_i, 0, host, port)
>
> In my situation I can't change the receiving program to accept a string
> or I could do it that way. I can't convert the integer to a string
> either because that would blow my 32 bit requirement.  Does anyone have
> any idea?
>
>
> ~Parkingmeter
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>
>

Try

ri Array#pack

[number].pack('i')

should do the trick.
pth