The current implementation of to_s is inherited from IList because byte[] implements IList interface: >>> a = System::Array[System::Byte].new(10) => [0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte)] >>> a.to_s => "0000000000" >>> a.method(:to_s) => #<Method: System::Byte[](System::Collections::IList)#to_s> >>> a.method(:to_s).clr_members => [IronRuby.Builtins.MutableString Join(IronRuby.Runtime.ConversionStorage`1[IronRuby.Builtins.MutableString], System.Collections.IList)]
Which is not very useful for byte[]. However to keep this consistent with other arrays it’s better to keep it as is. To enable creating strings from byte[] I’ll add an overload to String.new that takes a byte[]. >>> a = System::Array[System::Byte].new(10) => [0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte), 0 (Byte)] >>> a[4] = ?A => 65 >>> String.new(a) => "\000\000\000\000A\000\000\000\000\000" You can also go to MutableString class directly like so: >>> String.CreateBinary(a) => "\000\000\000\000A\000\000\000\000\000" or >>> String.CreateBinary().Append(a, 3, 3) => "\000A\000" Tomas From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:14 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] byte[] to ruby string you can just skip my email.. I tried my things now and none of them work. --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Nathan Stults <nathan_stu...@hsihealth.com<mailto:nathan_stu...@hsihealth.com>> wrote: I don't even get that far. When I do a File.read or a System::IO::File.read_all_bytes from IronRuby (iirb.exe), I get this (works OK in MRI): C:\>iirb irb(main):001:0> File.read("c:\\temp\\clickhere.png") File.read("c:\\temp\\clickhere.png") IOError: Not enough storage is available to process this command. from mscorlib:0:in `WinIOError' from mscorlib:0:in `Write' from :0:in `write' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:302:in `output_value' from :0:in `printf' from :0:in `printf' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:151:in `eval_input' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:263:in `signal_status' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:147:in `eval_input' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:146:in `eval_input' from :0:in `loop' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:70:in `start' from c:/IronRuby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `start' from :0:in `catch' from c:/IronRuby/bin/iirb:13 from :0:in `catch' irb(main):002:0> -----Original Message----- From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org> [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org>] On Behalf Of Håkon Clausen Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:13 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> Subject: [Ironruby-core] byte[] to ruby string Hello, I'm struggling with converting a byte array into a ruby binary string. Does anybody know how to make something like this pass? require 'test/unit' include System::IO class Binstring < Test::Unit::TestCase def test_binstring_bytea fileName = 'flowers.jpg' #Ruby way data1 = File.read(fileName) #.Net fs = FileStream.new(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); br = BinaryReader.new(fs); numBytes = FileInfo.new(fileName).Length; buff = br.ReadBytes(numBytes); data2 = System::Text::ASCIIEncoding.new.GetString(buff).to_s assert data1 == data2 end end Regards, Håkon -- Håkon Clausen Nosyko AS "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" - Bill Gates, 1981. _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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