Assuming your array contains ASCII fixnum representation of characters,
messaging #pack('c*') on it should give you a string object back.
You can look up the documentation of Array#pack for more information.
I dislike this method, but here I don't see a better choice.
Laurent
On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:
> I would like to do
>
> mungedRegistration = [...]
> registrationString = NSString.stringWithUTF8String(mungedRegistration)
>
> but this results in
>
> can't convert Array into String (TypeError)
>
> What is the best approach here?
>
> I do need my munged registration to be an array since I'm initializing it
> with numbers and then do calculations on these numbers to convert them into
> character values.
>
> Thanks, Joel
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