From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-03-13T12:10:32+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize 0.7.3 Released

Questions:

The following ways all recreate my original string, however I am having 
trouble getting the comparison work to itself expressed in string 
form--it's like the string form doesn't express all the inside chars or 
something--am I missing something?  Is there a way to recreate the 
string along the lines of "dent?\226" and, as a follow up, is 
complicated_string.inspect just not displaying the interior characters 
right?


>>  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"
=> false
>> str = ""
=> ""
>> 
?> for code in bytes
>>   str << code.chr
>> end
=> [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115, 32, 
112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
>> str == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
=> false
>> str = bytes.map{|n| n.chr}.join
=> "dent?<80><99>s previou"
>> str == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
=> false

Just wondering if anybody can enlighten me.
Guess we just need more people named by Ruby names, huh?
Take care.
-R
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