From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T05:37:20+09:00
Subject: Re: bin2str conversion

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Arlen Cuss <celtic@sairyx.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Zangief Ief <z4n9ief@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I would like to write a function which is able to convert a binary data
>  > into its string format...
>  > For example, here I have the opposite of my goal.
>
>
>  My apologies, I just got what you meant! How's this?
>
>   celtic@sohma:~$ cat test.rb
>  class String
>   def to_binary
>     self.unpack('C*').map {|x| x.to_s(2).rjust(8, '0')}.join
Not sure, but that ^^^^ line seems to be the same as this...

unpack('B*').first

>   end
>
>   def self.from_binary b
>     b.scan(/.{8}/).map {|x| x.to_i(2)}.pack('C*')

I thought I could come up with something better than this, but I guess
not right now :-)

>   end
>  end
>
>  string = "Hello, world!"
>  puts binary = string.to_binary
>  puts String.from_binary(binary)
>
>  celtic@sohma:~$ ruby test.rb
>  01001000011001010110110001101100011011110010110000100000011101110110111101110010011011000110010000100001
>  Hello, world!
>  celtic@sohma:~$
>
>  HTH,
>  Arlen.

Todd