How to search for ascii char sequence in binary file

[Earle Clubb]

So I'm trying to convert e.g. 'RIFF' to e.g. '52494646'. What's the
best way to do that? I don't know what the former string will be, be I
know it will be exactly four characters.

I'm searching a binary file for the latter string, but I'm given the
former as the search term. I'm thinking something like this for the
search:

puts File.read('file.wav').index('52494646')

So... best way to do the conversion, and best way to do the search.
Ideas?

Earle

 

[Gordon Thiesfeld]

So... best way to do the conversion, and best way to do the search.

Ideas?

Earle

Here's a way to do the conversion. No ideas on the search.

class String
def to_hex_string
r = ''
self.each_byte{|c| r << c.to_s(16)}
r
end
end

# unit test
require 'test/unit'

class TestString < Test::Unit::TestCase

def test_convert
assert_equal( '52494646', 'RIFF'.to_hex_string)
end

end

Regards,

Gordon