From: Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>
Date: 2009-04-02T05:10:40+09:00
Subject: Re: BInary Files

Gene Vincent wrote:
> Hi I'm pretty new to Ruby and writing code in general. That being said
> Im trying to learn how to create and modify(by a percentage) a binary
> file. Any advise or pointers would be apprieciated.
>   
My personal view, is that binary files should be avoided unless 
absolutely necessary.  Being able to look through the contents of a file 
and eyeball what's wrong is incredibly useful.  That being said, if you 
absolutely need to write binary, take a look at the documentation for 
the Array#pack method.  That should give you a nice starting point.

Michael

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