lib/bencodr/parser.rb in bencodr-1.0.1 vs lib/bencodr/parser.rb in bencodr-1.1.0

@@ -108,6 +108,20 @@
         [key, value]
       end
       private :parse_key_value
     end
   end
+end
+
+class String
+  # This method decodes a bencoded string into a ruby object.
+  #
+  #   "6:string".bdecode  #=> "string"
+  #   "i-1e".bdecode      #=> -1
+  #   "le".bdecode        #=> []
+  #   "de".bdecode        #=> {}
+  #
+  # @return [::String, ::Integer, ::Array, ::Hash] the decoded object
+  def bdecode
+    BEncodr::Parser.parse_object(StringScanner.new self) or raise BEncodr::BEncodeError, "Invalid bencoding"
+  end
 end
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