Re: How can I make ruby read a string of characters per three characters?

Here's an example which will let you put in sets of 3 characters and 
rollaround anything which doesn't fall into a group of 3.

This particular script just puts the ASCII character, so you're limited 
to passing character groups between "000" and "255" as input (or a fatal 
error occurs).

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leftover = ''

loop do
  puts 'Enter Numbers:'
  input = gets.chomp

  unless leftover.empty?
    input = leftover + input
    leftover = ''
  end

  input.scan(/.{1,3}/) do |s|

    if s.length == 3
      puts s.to_i.chr
    else
      leftover = s
    end

  end #input scan

end #loop

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