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Feature #14574

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percent literals and binary encoding strings

Added by pb (pumbur _) over 6 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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[ruby-core:85913]

Description

coding "\x00".force_encoding('binary') or ["\x00"].pack('a*') is a hassle, is there a chance to have special percent literal for it?
i.e: %b"\x00" would return binary string. (note, signle-character \x00 there is accidental, the idea is force any string from script encoding to binary)

or, more general suggestion:
allow percent literal with any [a-z] character, move all logic to user-level and allow it to be redefinable:

define_percent_literal(:b){|q| q.force_encoding('binary') }
%b'\x00' #=> "\x00"
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