From: ARIMA Yasuhiro <fit0298@...>
Date: 2000-07-17T20:58:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04078] Re: unpack and "bn" with n>16

Hi.

Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> wrote

| There must be a good reason for the following (tested on 1.4.5, 1.4.3,
| ix86/axp):
| 
| p "\0\0\0\0".unpack("b16b1b2") # -> ["0000000000000000", "0", "00"]
| p "\0\0\0\0".unpack("b17b1b1") # -> ["00000000000000000", "0", ""]
| 
| I can't find it though :(

I try it, and modified a little.

p "\0\377\0\377".unpack("b16b1b2") # -> ["0000000011111111", "0", "11"]
p "\0\377\0\377".unpack("b17b1b1") # -> ["00000000111111110", "1", ""]

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