binary string to hex string

[IMSargon]

I'm sure there's a very simple solution, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

I have a string that looks like this, "BÑ›c-Ûí3^¥‘¹&¯]" and I want it to look like this, "42D19B630B2DDBED335EA591B926AF5D".

I've tried typecast and unflatten without success. What function should I be using?

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

If you just want to see the content in hexadecimal, right-click the indicator and switch to hex display.

If you want to format it as a hexadecimal formatted string (2 characters/byte, using characters 0..F exclusively), you could do the following:

There are many other ways to do all this. Here's a loop-free version:

Message Edited by altenbach on 07-21-2009 10:33 AM

[IMSargon]

Thanks, your code does do what I need.

I should also more clear about what I am doing, so we can see if there are simpler solutions. I am writing a login using a 32 character hex hash read from a file, and comparing this to the output from the OpenG MD5 Digest function.

Edit: Thanks, your loop-free version looks like a good solution to me.

Message Edited by IMSargon on 07-21-2009 12:42 PM

[Eugen_Graf]

Just select the Display Mode of your string indicator to HEX (Rightclick on it)

[altenbach]

I don't have the openg toolkit installed at the moment. Is the output of the openG MD5 function a hexadecimal formatted string?

Do you need to format the string from the file or the output of the MD5?

You can go either way: comparing the binary strings or the hexadecimal formatted strings. Same difference.

I would store whatever you need to compare in the file so no conversion is needed at all.

[IMSargon]

The output of the MD5 function is the binary string. As of now I'm just typing the hashes into the text file, so I couldn't use the binary string in the file. This may change as I come up with a feature to allow users to change their own password.

[Eugen_Graf]

Text files contain binary code, but if you open a such file with a text editor it will represent you the contained binary code as ASCII chracters.