From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-02-25T23:54:07+09:00
Subject: Re: bitwise AND, OR, XOR, NOT for strings?

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>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.
> 
> this is a great idea.  it might also be useful to have
> 
>   String.and! other
>   String.or! other
>   String.xor! other
>   String.not!
> 
> which did not create copies.

Thanks for the responses. I'm gonna try submitting this as an RCR.

-- 
dave