Ruby - Binary
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pack/unpack
Integer
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|Directive | Meaning |
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| C | 8-bit unsigned (unsigned char) |
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| S | 16-bit unsigned, native endian (uint16_t) |
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| L | 32-bit unsigned, native endian (uint32_t) |
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| Q | 64-bit unsigned, native endian (uint64_t) |
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| c | 8-bit signed (signed char) |
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| s | 16-bit signed, native endian (int16_t) |
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| l | 32-bit signed, native endian (int32_t) |
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| q | 64-bit signed, native endian (int64_t) |
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| S\_, S! | unsigned short, native endian |
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| I, I\_, I! | unsigned int, native endian |
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| L\_, L! | unsigned long, native endian |
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| Q\_, Q! | unsigned long long, native endian (ArgumentError |
| | if the platform has no long long type.) |
| | (Q\_ and Q! is available since Ruby 2.1.) |
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| s\_, s! | signed short, native endian |
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| i, i\_, i! | signed int, native endian |
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| l\_, l! | signed long, native endian |
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| q\_, q! | signed long long, native endian (ArgumentError |
| | if the platform has no long long type.) |
| | (q\_ and q! is available since Ruby 2.1.) |
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| S> L> Q> | same as the directives without ">" except |
| s> l> q> | big endian |
| S!> I!> | (available since Ruby 1.9.3) |
| L!> Q!> | "S>" is same as "n" |
| s!> i!> | "L>" is same as "N" |
| l!> q!> | |
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| S< L< Q< | same as the directives without "<" except |
| s< l< q< | little endian |
| S!< I!< | (available since Ruby 1.9.3) |
| L!< Q!< | "S<" is same as "v" |
| s!< i!< | "L<" is same as "V" |
| l!< q!< | |
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| n | 16-bit unsigned, network (big-endian) byte order |
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| N | 32-bit unsigned, network (big-endian) byte order |
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| v | 16-bit unsigned, VAX (little-endian) byte order |
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| V | 32-bit unsigned, VAX (little-endian) byte order |
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| U | UTF-8 character |
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| w | BER-compressed integer (see Array.pack) |
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Float
| Directive |
Meaning |
| D, d |
double-precision, native format |
| F, f |
single-precision, native format |
| E |
double-precision, little-endian byte order |
| e |
single-precision, little-endian byte order |
| G |
double-precision, network (big-endian) byte order |
| g |
single-precision, network (big-endian) byte order |
String
| Directive |
Meaning |
| A |
arbitrary binary string (remove trailing nulls and ASCII spaces) |
| a |
arbitrary binary string |
| Z |
null-terminated string |
| B |
bit string (MSB first) |
| b |
bit string (LSB first) |
| H |
hex string (high nibble first) |
| h |
hex string (low nibble first) |
| u |
UU-encoded string |
| M |
quoted-printable, MIME encoding (:RFC:`2045`) |
| m |
base64 encoded string (:RFC:`2045`) (default) base64 encoded string (:RFC:`4648`) if followed by 0 |
| P |
pointer to a structure (fixed-length string) |
| p |
pointer to a null-terminated string |
Misc
| Directive |
Meaning |
| @ |
skip to the offset given by the length argument |
| X |
skip backward one byte |
| x |
skip forward one byte |