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| author | Jean Boussier <byroot@ruby-lang.org> | 2022-12-20 09:25:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Benoit Daloze <eregontp@gmail.com> | 2022-12-20 19:17:57 +0100 |
| commit | 88040063d0ec8aa64e0de2a3afae7286ec53bfdb (patch) | |
| tree | 3d5826347ec8c63f5152987453fd5b26ddf4e679 /doc/packed_data.rdoc | |
| parent | 3ded50a36c0631aca17f363e68f6beff47713f7e (diff) | |
Array#pack: document silent truncation
Ref: [Feature #19245]
At the very least this behavior should be documented.
Notes
Notes:
Merged: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6969
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/packed_data.rdoc b/doc/packed_data.rdoc index 9ba585c90b..ec13b24c69 100644 --- a/doc/packed_data.rdoc +++ b/doc/packed_data.rdoc @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Any directive may be followed by either of these modifiers: Note: Directives in <tt>%w[A a Z m]</tt> use +count+ differently; see {String Directives}[rdoc-ref:packed_data.rdoc@String+Directives]. +If elements don't fit the provided directive, only least significant bits are encoded: + + [257].pack("C").unpack("C") # => [1] + === Packing \Method \Method Array#pack accepts optional keyword argument |