From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2008-01-28T17:20:24+09:00
Subject: Logical Operations on Strings

Is there a bitwise and for strings that I am missing?  I tried the 
documentation and Google with no luck.  I coded a simple method to 
handle this, it obviously needs more error checking, but don't want to 
reinvent the wheel if not necessary.

def AND(s, m)
   t = s.dup
   for i in 0...(s.size <= m.size ? s.size : m.size)
     t[i] = (s[i] & m[i]).chr
   end
   return t
end

On a related note, is there any way to create a string from a hex number 
other than separating each two digits and using .chr to convert them to 
a number and adding them to the string?  If I have a string such as 
0x7FFFFFFFFFFF I have to use something like str1 = 0x7F.chr followed by 
5 str1 << 0xFF.chr which seems to be unnecessarily clumsy.