From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T04:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: confusing string parsing problem

Matt Brooks wrote:
> Also, I never made it clear but the string is in network byte order (big 
> Endian)

data = ""

data << 0.chr << 3.chr     #2 bytes
data << 0.chr << 0.chr     #2 bytes
data << 1.chr              #1 byte
data << "BFO" << 0.chr     #null terminated string
data << "-8000" << "\000"  #null terminated string
data << 0.chr << 0.chr     #2 bytes

p data

--output:--
"\000\003\000\000\001BFO\000-8000\000\000\000"

results = data.unpack("n2CZ*Z*n")
p results

--output:--
[3, 0, 1, "BFO", "-8000", 0]


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