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quoth the Chris Hulan:
> darren kirby wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I am unpacking some unicode strings from a binary file. I have a string
> > like:
> >
> > "W\000M\000/\000T\000r\000a\000c\000k\000N\000u\000m\000b\000e\000r\000\0
> >00\000\003"
> >
> > and I need to turn it into:
> >
> > "WM/TrackNumber"
>
> could try:
>
> myAscii = s.unpack('U'*s.length).select{|x| x >46}.collect{|x|
> x.chr}.to_s

Hello,

This is fairly close to something I was trying earlier, except more elegant. 
This seems to be munging my spaces though, as I take it the space code is 
less than 46? Have to look for a chart.

Is unpacking as UTF8 going to be problematic if the string is actually UTF16 
as Philip points out?

I will play some more, thanks guys...
-d
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