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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting parts of a string to "Hex" Post 302699801 by HansHansen on Wednesday 12th of September 2012 10:24:16 AM
Old 09-12-2012
Converting parts of a string to "Hex"

Hi Guys,

writing a small shell script, i need to convert parts of a string to "Hex". The problem is that it is not the full string that needs to be converted.
I think it's best to show an example:

$astring = "xxxxxx ABC+10+##########+DEF xxxx"

This is only an example to show how the string could look like. There can be many characters at the beginning, then there is a "starting code" ABC, a value which say's how long the element it (10 in this case), then the some unprintable hex characters (just marked as #) and the "end mark" DEF.

As the hex char's are not displayable, they should be displayed as "\x39" for example. So the above string should result in

$astring = "xxxxxx ABC+10+\x39\x55\x12\x84\xA7\x9F\x2C\xB1\xFF\x12+DEF xxxx"

after the conversion.

The only thing i can do is to loop through the string, find "ABC", get the count number and do the conversion.

Or is there a quicker and simpler solution you could think of?


Thanks a lot for your help !!!

Hans
 

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base32::hex(n)							  Base32 encoding						    base32::hex(n)

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NAME
base32::hex - base32 extended hex encoding SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4 package require base32::core ?0.1? package require base32::hex ?0.1? ::base32::hex::encode string ::base32::hex::decode estring _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides commands for encoding and decoding of strings into and out of the extended hex base32 encoding as specified in the RFC 3548bis draft. API
::base32::hex::encode string This command encodes the given string in extended hex base32 and returns the encoded string as its result. The result may be padded with the character = to signal a partial encoding at the end of the input string. ::base32::hex::decode estring This commands takes the estring and decodes it under the assumption that it is a valid extended hex base32 encoded string. The result of the decoding is returned as the result of the command. Note that while the encoder will generate only uppercase characters this decoder accepts input in lowercase as well. The command will always throw an error whenever encountering conditions which signal some type of bogus input, namely if [1] the input contains characters which are not valid output of a extended hex base32 encoder, [2] the length of the input is not a multiple of eight, [3] padding appears not at the end of input, but in the middle, [4] the padding has not of length six, four, three, or one characters, CODE MAP
The code map used to convert 5-bit sequences is shown below, with the numeric id of the bit sequences to the left and the character used to encode it to the right. The important feature of the extended hex mapping is that the first 16 codes map to the digits and hex characters. 0 0 9 9 18 I 27 R 1 1 10 A 19 J 28 S 2 2 11 B 20 K 29 T 3 3 12 C 21 L 30 U 4 4 13 D 22 M 31 V 5 5 14 E 23 N 6 6 15 F 24 O 7 7 16 G 25 P 8 8 17 H 26 Q BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category base32 of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
base32, hex, rfc3548 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) Public domain base32 0.1 base32::hex(n)
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