String::HexConvert3pm

Converts ascii strings to hex and reverse

Usage

 use String::HexConvert ':all';
 print ascii_to_hex("hello world"); # writes: 68656c6c6f20776f726c64
 print hex_to_ascii("68656c6c6f20776f726c64"); # writes: hello world

Overview

It is a wrapper around pack and unpack of perl to convert a string of hex digits to ascii and other way around.

Requires

Exporter

Methods

ascii_to_hex

 my $hex = ascii_to_hex($ascii);

Converts a string to pairs of hex digits

hex_to_ascii

 my $ascii = hex_to_ascii($hex);

Converts pairs of hex digits to asci

Why?

In know the comments like "is that realy needed?". IMHO yes, because I forget the exact syntax and possibilities of pack and unpack but hex_to_ascii tells me directly what pack "H*" does.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 2 times.

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