Hi there, On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Al Varnell wrote:
... the strings you provided appear to contain an extra digit. I thought hex strings always contain an even number of digits?
Just as decimal strings are strings composed of decimal digits and can be any length, hexadecimal strings are strings composed of hexadecimal digits - and can also be any length. They usually present as an even number of digits only because they generally represent the even numbers of four-bit binary numbers found in machine registers: 8-bit bytes and 16-bit words from decades ago, 32-bit, 64-bit and even 128-bit words (e.g. for IPv6 addresses) in more recent times. I'm sure I did once use 12-bit word lengths for some reason, but I can't now remember what the hardware was. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
