From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T06:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Binary data

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:17:01AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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?

I can think of the following:
Bit operations w/ Fixnum, then Array#pack.

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