Convert bytes of numerics to character arrays

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In C, I might memcpy an int or short into an array of characters. Is
there some wonderful way in Ruby to append the bytes which compose a
numeric value to a character array? This is useful for things like
constructing fixed-length field packets. Thank you.

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[Brian]:

In C, I might memcpy an int or short into an array of characters. Is
there some wonderful way in Ruby to append the bytes which compose a
numeric value to a character array? This is useful for things like
constructing fixed-length field packets. Thank you.

Look at the #pack and #unpack functions.

// Niklas