From: coma_killen@...
Date: 2003-04-01T16:03:47+09:00
Subject: unpack("V") returns Integer and not Fixnum

Hi,

This has probably been reported before but if not I thought I might  
mention it:
 
unpacking four chars as an unsigned long in little-endian byte order may  
return a Bignum and not always a Fixnum as it says on page 384 in the
pickaxe book:

 (255.chr * 4).unpack("V").first.class # => Bignum

This is as it should be but I was confused by the docs.

Regards,

Karsten

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