On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:56:28AM +0900, David A. Black wrote: > Hi -- > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Aaron Patterson wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:58:44AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote: >>> Aaron Patterson wrote: >>>> mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released! >>> >>> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well. >> >> Thank you! >> >>> >>> Question on strings: >>> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in >>> "string" format: >>> >>> Here it is byte by byte >>> >>> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115, >>> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117] >>> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string >>> all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form >> >> Try using pack: > > In other words: > > pack, Pack! > > The roster of community members whose last names are core methods > (give or take a capital letter) is growing. There are at least three > at this point (Freeze, Keys, and Pack). I've submitted my patch to add the "patterson" method to Array, but I haven't heard anything back..... -- Aaron Patterson http://tenderlovemaking.com/