From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-01-09T05:47:51+09:00
Subject: Re: String#unpack and big-endian versus little-endian

Harry Ohlsen <harryo@zip.com.au> writes:

> I ended up with code like ...
>
>    byte[0], byte[1], byte[2], byte[3] =
>        byte[3], byte[2], byte[1], byte[0]
>
> I can't help but wonder whether there's a cleverer way to do this.
> I couldn't see anything in unpack() that allowed for specifying the
> endian-ness

See http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_string.html#String.unpack.

In particular, 'V' and 'N' may do what you want.