Or if you want the characters themselves:
@result = map { chr( hex ) } @source;
Or as a solid string:
$s = join '', map { chr( hex ) } @source;
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:47 PM, will trillich
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Dude! This one is really easy:
>
> print hex("ff"); # 255!
>
> so @result = map{ hex } @source;
>
> Mwa ha ha!
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Greg Aiken <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> if one dumps a windows registry section using regedit (to *.reg format)
>>
>>
>>
>> the reg_sz values are listed in the following format (heres a code
>> fragment)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "\\DosDevices\\E:"=hex:5c,00,3f,00,3f,00,5c,00,53,00,43,00,53,00,49,00,23,00,\
>>
>>
>> 43,00,64,00,52,00,6f,00,6d,00,26,00,56,00,65,00,6e,00,5f,00,45,00,5a,00,35,\
>>
>>
>> 00,33,00,35,00,32,00,58,00,26,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,64,00,5f,00,56,00,54,00,\
>>
>>
>> 59,00,35,00,32,00,37,00,4f,00,26,00,52,00,65,00,76,00,5f,00,32,00,2e,00,30,\
>>
>>
>> 00,42,00,23,00,35,00,26,00,33,00,36,00,65,00,35,00,39,00,37,00,32,00,26,00,\
>>
>>
>> 30,00,26,00,30,00,30,00,30,00,23,00,7b,00,35,00,33,00,66,00,35,00,36,00,33,\
>>
>>
>> 00,30,00,64,00,2d,00,62,00,36,00,62,00,66,00,2d,00,31,00,31,00,64,00,30,00,\
>>
>>
>> 2d,00,39,00,34,00,66,00,32,00,2d,00,30,00,30,00,61,00,30,00,63,00,39,00,31,\
>>
>> 00,65,00,66,00,62,00,38,00,62,00,7d,00
>>
>>
>>
>> ive already got code that parses this info.
>>
>>
>>
>> ive removed the trailing \(backslash)newline(space)(space) from the data
>> block so im left with a scalar containing hexadecimal values separated with
>> a comma.
>>
>>
>>
>> ive then split this long scaler on the ‘,’ (comma) to yield an array
>> containing the hex values.
>>
>>
>>
>> my problem here is that I don’t know the easiest ‘built-in’ way to convert
>> this list of hex values to ascii values (ascii values as in the ascii
>> character set for printing in human readable letters). as in the ‘char’
>> column of this table
>> http://www.hobbyprojects.com/ascii-table/images/ascii-table1.gif
>>
>>
>>
>> I know chr(decimal value) will do such a conversion. but my values in the
>> array are not in decimal value format.
>>
>>
>>
>> and im kind of lost with pack… ive unsuccessfully tried…
>>
>>
>>
>> $ascii_string = pack(“H*”, @hex_array) and
>>
>> $ascii_string = pack(“h*”, @hex_array)
>>
>>
>>
>> but neither yields the proper output.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know I could write an ultra low level code that directly converts each
>> hex byte to decimal, then call chr with the decimal value, but certainly
>> that’s ‘too much work’ in perl.
>>
>>
>>
>> any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> it would be as if were starting with
>>
>>
>>
>> @hex_array = (‘5c’,’00’,’3f’,’00’,’3f’,’00’,’5c’,’00’,’53’,’00’,…);
>>
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