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Re: Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings

From Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ruby
Subject Re: Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings
Date 2011-04-07 04:43 -0500
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Oh, I forgot to do the reverse:

>> bin = "\253T\251\214\353\037\n\322"
=> "\253T\251\214\353\037\n\322"
>> bin.unpack("H*").first.to_i(16)
=> 12345678901234567890

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Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 23:56 -0500
  Re: Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-07 04:41 -0500
    Re: Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-07 04:43 -0500
      Re: Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings "Aaron D. Gifford" <astounding@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 11:30 -0500

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