Does Ruby have anything like isprint?

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Hi!

I want to print out the 'printable' characters from a binary
data stream.
Is there anything like C's isprint() function in Ruby?

Thanks,
Martin.

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"Martin Kahlert" <mkcon@gmx.de> wrote...

Hi!

I want to print out the 'printable' characters from a binary
data stream.
Is there anything like C's isprint() function in Ruby?

Thanks,
Martin.

You can use the POSIX regular expression 'metacharacter' [:print:] to match
a printing character.

def isprint(c)
  /[[:print:]]/ === c.chr
end

Or you can .gsub(/[^[:print:]]/, '') on a string, etc.

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Hi,

Hi!

I want to print out the 'printable' characters from a binary
data stream.
Is there anything like C's isprint() function in Ruby?

Not that I know of. But here's a way to get a copy of a string with
all non-printable characters stripped out:

# get a string with all possible byte values:
str = (0..255).map{|b| b.chr}.join
# print all printable characters:
print str.gsub(/[[:^print:]]+/, "")

That gsub there finds all runs of non-printing characters, and
replaces them with an empty string (ie, nothing).

HTH,
Mark

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:43 +0900, Martin Kahlert <mkcon@gmx.de> wrote:

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"Dave Burt" <dave@burt.id.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"Martin Kahlert" <mkcon@gmx.de> wrote...
> Hi!
>
> I want to print out the 'printable' characters from a binary
> data stream.
> Is there anything like C's isprint() function in Ruby?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin.

You can use the POSIX regular expression 'metacharacter' [:print:] to

match

a printing character.

def isprint(c)
  /[[:print:]]/ === c.chr
end

Or you can .gsub(/[^[:print:]]/, '') on a string, etc.

I prefer to use scan as this is likely more memory efficient (no copy of
the whole thing needed):

binary_string.scan(/[[:print:]]+/) { |s| print s }

Kind regards

    robert