From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2008-03-13T08:53:11+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize 0.7.3 Released

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:58:44AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:
> Aaron Patterson wrote:
> > mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!
> 
> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.

Thank you!

> 
> Question on strings:
> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in 
> "string" format:
> 
> Here it is byte by byte
> 
> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115, 
> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string
> all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form

Try using pack:

  bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115, 
    32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
  bytes.pack('C*') == "dent?<80><99>s previou"

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/