From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-16T00:52:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining if a String is marshalled

Hi,

In message "Determining if a String is marshalled"
    on 03/07/16, Daniel Berger <djberge@qwest.com> writes:

|I was just wondering if there's a way to determine if a string has been 
|marshalled without visual inspection.  Something along the lines of 
|"string.marshalled?"  or "string.kind_of?(MarshaledString)".  Is there a 
|regex I could use?

Marshal string have its format version embedded at the top 2 bytes (no
magic though).  So that

  string[0,2] == Marshal.dump("")[0,2]

should work for most of the cases.

							matz.