From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-03-13T11:56:28+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize 0.7.3 Released

Hi --

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> 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:

In other words:

pack, Pack!

The roster of community members whose last names are core methods
(give or take a capital letter) is growing. There are at least three
at this point (Freeze, Keys, and Pack).


David

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