From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T16:29:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Binary data

Hi Daniel ;-)

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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.

You should have a look at the following methods:

	Array#pack
	String#unpack

Hope this helps,

--
Laurent