From: Han Holl <han@...>
Date: 2002-05-26T20:48:24+09:00
Subject: Unexpected Array#pack behaviour (bug?)


Hi,

Do I miss something, or is ruby misbehaving here :

irb(main):072:0> ["a","b"].pack("m2")
"YQ==\n"
irb(main):073:0> ["a","b"].pack("mm")
"YQ==\nYg==\n"
irb(main):074:0> ["a","b"].pack("m*")
"YQ==\n"

Or is the ri - documentation misleading :
"If the count is an asterisk (``*''), all remaining array elements will 
be converted."

Ruby 1.6.7 on Linux.

Han Holl