From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T15:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert numbers to "non-ascii" strings

Consultant1guru@hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm afraid that you may have selected the incorrect language for the
> task at hand.  Your question implies that you are doing some complex
> parsing or ...

Nothing whatever complex about it, quite simple in Ruby:

class Numeric
  def to_ls
    [self].pack("N")
  end
end

Works for BigNum and FixNum, no need to modify those classes.

Clifford Heath.