[LRUG] How would you turn a bit stream into a character stream?

[James Coglan]

On 11 June 2012 14:15, Chris Parsons <chris.p at rsons.org> wrote:

> Hmm, interesting. Feels like a bug causing 13-15 to appear three times as
> often. Can we see the code?
>

The codes actually JS. Ruby would look something like this, for taking the
next chunk of the bit stream:

n = Math.ceil(Math.log(charset.size) / Math.log(2))
chunk = bits[0...n]
return chunk if chunk =~ /^0/ # definitely within range
value = chunk.to_i(2)
return (value >= size.size) ? chunk[0..-2] : chunk
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