From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-02-23T19:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkey patching class String to add bitwise operators


On Feb 23, 2011, at 02:12 , Martin Hansen wrote:

> <"00110001"> expected but was
> <"\x00\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x01">.

The first are composed of the chars "0" and "1" (ascii 48/49). The second are actual ones and zeros (ascii 0/1):

% ruby19 -e 'p "\x00\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x01".split(//).map(&:ord)'
[0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1]

The problem probably lies with your use of ord w/o chr.