From: Rajesh Olafson <rolafson@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T11:08:41+09:00
Subject: Re: write byte array to file

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Hello Tim,

I do like

file_name=new_foo.gif

# myMethod return a byte array for file_name
my_byte_array = myMethod('foo.gif')

puts my_byte_array.class # => Array

outfile = File.new('new_foo.gif', 'w')
outfile.puts(byteArray)
outfile.close

----
now outfile only had some nonsense text.

# file new_foo.gif
 ascii text

?

Thank you.

Rajesh.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Rajesh Olafson wrote:
>
>> I have method that read a binary file - maybe a image, and return a byte
>>>> array.
>>>>
>>>> I want write the byte array to another file. But I keep writing the
>>>> bytes
>>>> as
>>>> text. I want binary.
>>>>
>>>> What need I do?
>>>>
>>>> Rajesh.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I'm guessing that you're on Windows. Open the file with the 'b' flag,
>>> i.e.
>>> 'wb'.
>>>
>>>
>> Thank you.
>> no. I use linux ubuntu. shold have said that before.
>>
>> With my file write I just get text in the file. Not binary.
>> ?
>>
>>
> Then I don't understand. What do you mean you "just get text"? If you're on
> Linux or you've opened the file with the b flag, then you should get the
> data you write w/o conversion.
>
> Maybe it would help if you showed an example of your code.
>
>
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