Ascii to binary conversion

ruby-talk
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Hi all,

I’m trying to read in a file of numbers that are stored as strings and
I want to convert these to binary and save these out as a binary file.
What is an easy way to do this ascii -> binary conversion in Ruby?

Thanks,

  • Khurram
2

Try Array.pack and String.unpack.

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On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 14:58, Khurram wrote:

Hi all,

I’m trying to read in a file of numbers that are stored as strings and
I want to convert these to binary and save these out as a binary file.
What is an easy way to do this ascii → binary conversion in Ruby?

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