From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T23:14:48+09:00
Subject: Re: bitwise AND, OR, XOR, NOT for strings?


"David Garamond" <davegaramond@icqmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:e241b76e.0402240558.5dca01ce@posting.google.com...
> (reposted via c.l.r from another email account; post to mailing list
> doesn't seem to get through)
>
> What do people think of adding String#&, String#|, String#^, and
> String#~? I find it useful sometimes in Perl. In Ruby currently I have
> to convert each byte to integer first, rather slow (actually slow as
> mollasses... :-)
>
> There are BitSet and BitVector modules (and another one which I forgot
> for doing bit operations) but ironically none of them currently
> provide an easy way to xor two strings together.

I once hacked some BitSet together that could be initialized with a String
and converted back to a String.  If you're interested I could mail it to
you.  (If I find it back, that is. :-))

    robert