Array#pack

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:23:45 +0100, Michael Bruschkewitz wrote:

> Hello, 
> I read some data from, for example, Tcp.
> These data are read into a String.
> Somewhere in these String are 4 bytes, which are the binary 
> representation of an Integer.
> I hope there is a faster, native, solution than:
>  i = (((s[ofs+0]*256)+s[ofs+1])*256+s[ofs+2])*256+s[ofs+3]
> .. but I don't see this.