bitwise AND, OR, XOR, NOT for strings?

[David Garamond]

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What do people think of adding String#&, String#|, String#^, and
String#~? I find it useful sometimes in Perl. In Ruby currently I have
to convert each byte to integer first, rather slow (actually slow as
mollasses...

There are BitSet and BitVector modules (and another one which I forgot
for doing bit operations) but ironically none of them currently
provide an easy way to xor two strings together.

 

[Robert Klemme]

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What do people think of adding String#&, String#|, String#^, and
String#~? I find it useful sometimes in Perl. In Ruby currently I have
to convert each byte to integer first, rather slow (actually slow as
mollasses...

There are BitSet and BitVector modules (and another one which I forgot
for doing bit operations) but ironically none of them currently
provide an easy way to xor two strings together.

I once hacked some BitSet together that could be initialized with a String
and converted back to a String. If you're interested I could mail it to
you. (If I find it back, that is. )

robert

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

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What do people think of adding String#&, String#|, String#^, and
String#~? I find it useful sometimes in Perl. In Ruby currently I have
to convert each byte to integer first, rather slow (actually slow as
mollasses...

There are BitSet and BitVector modules (and another one which I forgot
for doing bit operations) but ironically none of them currently
provide an easy way to xor two strings together.

this is a great idea. it might also be useful to have

String.and! other
String.or! other
String.xor! other
String.not!

which did not create copies.

-a

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[David Garamond]

this is a great idea. it might also be useful to have

String.and! other
String.or! other
String.xor! other
String.not!

which did not create copies.

Thanks for the responses. I'm gonna try submitting this as an RCR.