From: Mike Hall <mghall@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T06:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading an integer out of 1..3 bytes


>  is there a rubysh way of reading 1,2 or 3 bytes
>on an integer from an IO?

Like with String 'unpack'?

    str.unpack( format ) -> anArray
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     Decodes str (which may contain binary data) according to the format
     string, returning an array of each value extracted.