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Re: Binary file: SAT

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7stud -- wrote in post #994163:
>
> Once you are familiar with what each byte in your file represents, you
> can use String#unpack to tell ruby how many bytes each integer occupies,
> and how to interpret the integer.

But, I can't get a simple unpack() example to work, so what do I know:

str = "\x00\x00\x00\x61"  #97 in hex, taking up 4 bytes

results = str.unpack("L")
p results

--output:--
[1627389952]

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