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How to convert hex bytes to string?

 
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Kamd
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:46 pm    Post subject: How to convert hex bytes to string? Reply with quote

How can I convert hex bytes (used in AOB scanning) into a string? For example:
Code:
hexbytes = '68 65 6C 6C 6F'
str = HexToString(hexbytes)
-- str should be "hello"
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
function HexToString(hb)
 hb = hb:gsub("%s+", "")
 hb = string.gsub(hb, "%s+", "")
 return (hb:gsub('..', function (cc)
 return string.char(tonumber(cc, 16)) end))
end

hexbytes = '68 65 6C 6C 6F'
str = HexToString(hexbytes)
print(str)

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

@Kamd
So, the place where you read those bytes in the first place.
Is there a zero at the end?
If so, just read it as a string.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even if there's not readString takes the number of bytes to read.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FreeER wrote:
Even if there's not readString takes the number of bytes to read.

No, readString does not take the number of bytes to read.
readString takes the maximum number of characters to read.
Meaning, it will stop reading at the NULL character, or, at MaxLength, whichever comes first.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

true, same difference here assuming you only care about the first 5 bytes.
You'd give 5 and it'd stop whether there's a 0 after or not

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, yes.
If you know for a fact that there is a terminating NULL and you don't care how long string you get, you could put there 255 Wink
Either way, depending on the use case, the original poster might get away without having to use a hex-to-string converter.
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