From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@...>
Date: 2002-07-02T01:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: convert bytes of numerics to character arrays

[Brian]:
> In C, I might memcpy an int or short into an array of characters.  Is
> there some wonderful way in Ruby to append the bytes which compose a
> numeric value to a character array?  This is useful for things like
> constructing fixed-length field packets.  Thank you.

Look at the #pack and #unpack functions.

// Niklas