Getting input like 100,101,102,103 and knowing it is supposed to represent characters but all you have is the bytes can be annoying, so here we go a quick way of writing it out as a text file.
File.open("out.txt", "w") do |f| content = File.open("bytes.csv").read f.write(content.split(",").map(&:to_i).pack("c*")) end
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