From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-06-01T21:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading binary files (or strings)

Hi,

At Sat, 1 Jun 2002 21:09:54 +0900,
Han Holl wrote:
> but as you can imagine performance is horrible.
> What I seem to need is either:
>     string.unpack(format, offset)    ## which I couldn.t find, but

  string.unpack("@#{offset}format")

> or:
>     iostream.unpack(format)   ## not found either.

You can use StringIO.
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src/rough/ext/stringio/

or included in 1.7

-- 
Nobu Nakada