From: Farrel Lifson <flifson@...>
Date: 2002-08-17T23:29:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ascii to binary conversion

On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 14:58, Khurram wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to read in a file of numbers that are stored as strings and
> I want to convert these to binary and save these out as a binary file.
> What is an easy way to do this ascii -> binary conversion in Ruby?  

Try Array.pack and String.unpack.

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