From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T05:17:01+09:00
Subject: [Q] Binary data

Hi,

Is it possible to store and manipulate binary data in Ruby?
As in the actual sequence of 1's and 0's.  I'm curious in the 
data-compression problem, but to be able to do any compression on a Ruby 
string I need to be able to manipulate data at the bit level.

Does anyone know how this can be done?

-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137