From: Joe <ziggurism@...>
Date: 2009-09-02T09:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: how to convert string to binary and back in Ruby 1.9?

On Sep 1, 4:53 pm, Joe <ziggur...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Is there really no way to go from bytes to string?  That's all I want!


OK, I found the Array#pack method.  At first glance, it seemed to be
exactly what I was looking for.  I could do str.bytes.to_a to turn a
String into raw bytes, and Array#pack will turn them right back into a
String.

But go to

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Array.html

The method is missing from the 1.9 documentation.  Has it been
deprecated?  The 1.8 documentation doesn't help much, because it seems
the function is entirely unaware of the String encoding.

I guess Ruby's m17n is brand spanking new, and it shows, huh?  I'm
finding it pretty frustrating. :-(