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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to get data from hex file using SED or AWK based on pattern sign Post 302563573 by alister on Tuesday 11th of October 2011 03:02:37 PM
Old 10-11-2011
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Originally Posted by sameucho
I have a binary (hex) file
I was able to understand your data's description, but its format is unclear to me. Is it a binary file or a text file with hex-encoded data?

To be as clear as possible, why don't you post the output of hexdump -C datafile. If it's a large amount of data, just include a couple of samples of portions that match the bytes you need help extracting. This way, we can be sure we understand each other.

Regards,
Alister
 

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HEX2BIN(3)								 1								HEX2BIN(3)

hex2bin - Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string

SYNOPSIS
string hex2bin (string $data) DESCRIPTION
Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string. Caution This function does NOT convert a hexadecimal number to a binary number. This can be done using the base_convert(3) function. PARAMETERS
o $data - Hexadecimal representation of data. RETURN VALUES
Returns the binary representation of the given data or FALSE on failure. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS If the hexadecimal input string is of odd length or invalid hexadecimal string an E_WARNING level error is thrown. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.5.1 | | | | | | | A warning is thrown if the input string is | | | invalid hexadecimal string. | | | | | 5.4.1 | | | | | | | A warning is thrown if the input string is of | | | odd length. In PHP 5.4.0 the string was silently | | | accepted, but the last byte was truncated. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 hex2bin(3) example <?php $hex = hex2bin("6578616d706c65206865782064617461"); var_dump($hex); ?> The above example will output something similar to: string(16) "example hex data" SEE ALSO
bin2hex(3), unpack(3). PHP Documentation Group HEX2BIN(3)
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