From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-04-26T22:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: String.undump

Wrote Szymon Drejewicz <drejewic@wsisiz.edu.pl>, on Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:59:07PM +0900:
> 
> Is there any way to "undump" dumped string?
>         
>         => stringWithNonPrintingChars = "??d?"
>         => a = [32,stringWithNonPrintingChars].inspect
>         => puts a
>         "[32, \"\\243\\363d\\274\"]"
>         => puts a.undump
>         ??d?

eval it:

irb(main):001:0> a = "[32, \"\\243\\363d\\274\"]"
=> "[32, \"\\243\\363d\\274\"]"
irb(main):003:0> eval a
=> [32, "\243\363d\274"]


Sam

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