gnutls_hex2bin(3)

gnutls_hex2bin3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

int gnutls_hex2bin(const char * hex_data, size_t hex_size, void * bin_data, size_t * bin_size);

Arguments

const char * hex_data

string with data in hex format

size_t hex_size

size of hex data

void * bin_data

output array with binary data

size_t * bin_size

when calling should hold maximum size of bin_data , on return will hold actual length of bin_data .

Overview

Convert a buffer with hex data to binary data. This function unlike gnutls_hex_decode() can parse hex data with separators between numbers. That is, it ignores any non-hex characters.

Returns

GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS on success, otherwise a negative error code.

Since

2.4.0

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.