From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T02:54:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [FXRuby] marshalling objects to the fox registry

Pit Capitain wrote:
...
> I don't know about Fox and its registry but you could try to avoid 
> null chars by using a base64 encoding for the marshalled strings, 
> something like
> 
>   s = [ Marshal.dump( my_object ) ].pack( 'm' )
> 
> These strings don't include null or other special characters. To get 
> the marshalled object back you would do
> 
>   my_object = Marshal.load( s.unpack( 'm' )[ 0 ] )

Thanks, Pit. What I did was to simply use '\1' and '\2' as entry and row 
delimiters in my two dimensional array of printable strings. But your 
idea is much more general.