From: "Abinoam Jr." <abinoam@...>
Date: 2012-02-14T06:03:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I save a Net::BER::BerIdentifiedString as a binary file?

Net::BER::BerIdentifiedString is just a string with a ber indentifier attached.
Source: http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/Net/BER/BerIdentifiedString.html

(no matter what stands for 'ber').

So, you should know how the .jpg is being encoded inside the String!
Strings are not just a sequence of bytes (See character encoding)
Is it Base64 encoded?

You can try to Marshal.dump the object and see if somebody can guess.

File.open("ber_jpeg_file.dump", 'w') {|f| f.write
Marshal.dump(your_ber_object) }

Abinoam Jr.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Edward Stembler <ejstembler@mac.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know how to save a Net::BER::BerIdentifiedString as a binary
>> file?
>>
>> I've tried .dump, but that did not work.  I noticed there's a .bytes
>> enumerator, but I'm not sure what to do with it.
>>
>> Basically, I have an Net::BER::BerIdentifiedString [Binary Data] which
>> is holding a profile photo from an LDAP call, and I want to save it as a
>> jpg file.
>
> File.open 'foo.jpg', 'wb' do |io|
>  io.write bytes
> end
>
> Something like that.
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert
>
>
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