Reading in C structs

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I have the following C struct:

typedef struct
{
   short Elev; /* vertex elevation */
   u_char Zone; /* terrain fearture type */
   u_char Mono; /* monochrome brightness value */
   ulong rgb; /* rgb color components of vertex */

} cell_type

The rgb values are bitshifted into the rgb ulong, and then the rgb
ulong is converted to a network long.

Then a bunch of those structs are written into a file.

What's the Ruby way of getting the RGB values out? Is the unpack
specification "sccN"? And then I'd unpack the network long with
"cccc"?

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Joe Van Dyk wrote:

I have the following C struct:

typedef struct
{
   short Elev; /* vertex elevation */
   u_char Zone; /* terrain fearture type */
   u_char Mono; /* monochrome brightness value */
   ulong rgb; /* rgb color components of vertex */

} cell_type

The rgb values are bitshifted into the rgb ulong, and then the rgb
ulong is converted to a network long.

Then a bunch of those structs are written into a file.

What's the Ruby way of getting the RGB values out? Is the unpack
specification "sccN"? And then I'd unpack the network long with
"cccc"?

IIUC, just unpack "sC6", C for unsigned char.

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