From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T03:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: background on String#unpack?

On 10/26/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just looking for historical context on this method. It looks like
> one of those old-school Unix-isms that must have been incredibly
> useful in the past but never comes up in the course of run-of-the-mill
> Web programming. I'm pretty sure I first saw it ten years ago in Perl
> and never once used it myself. I think I did copy/paste it in some
> encryption code or something related, but I'm not sure. Just
> wondering, what's it for? Who uses it, and why?

String#unpack, along with its partner Array#pack is used for dealing
with binary input and output streams respectively.

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