From: Michael Bruschkewitz <brusch4_removetheunderlinesandthetextbetween_@...>
Date: 2010-12-02T18:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: BitStruct-28bit-Ruby Beginner



"Jaikanth Krishnaswamy" <jaikanth.krishnaswamy@gmail.com> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag news:0401466efe60cefce55d246c5d9ce4d4@ruby-forum.com...
> Hi ,
> I am a beginner to Ruby. I am using the  ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18
> revision 29036) [i686-linux] and bit-struct (0.13.6)
> I am trying to construct a 28 bit length data element in my class
> and am getting the following
> error./usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bit-struct-0.13.6/lib/bit-struct/unsigned-field.rb:244:in
> `add_accessors_to': unsupported:

Why not use binary string representation:
irb(main):019:0> b = "1234".unpack('B*').first
=> "00110001001100100011001100110100"
irb(main):020:0> [b[8..15]].pack 'B*'
=> "2"