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Convert selection to hex escaped form

Sometimes you would like to find out the byte values of text.

This script converts the selection to escaped hex form as used in C. Use Undo to remove the converted form.

For example "abc" -> "\x61\x62\x63", "ŠçïTÊ" in Latin-1 -> "\x8a\xe7\xef\x54\xca", "ŠçïTÊ" in UTF-8 -> "\xc5\xa0\xc3\xa7\xc3\xaf\x54\xc3\x8a".

-- Convert a string to a string of hex escapes
function Hexify(s) 
  local hexits = ""
  for i = 1, string.len(s) do
    hexits = hexits .. string.format("\\x%2x", string.byte(s, i))
  end
  return hexits
end

-- Convert the selection to hex escaped form
-- command.name.1.*=Hexify Selection
-- command.mode.1.*=subsystem:lua,savebefore:no
-- command.1.*=HexifySelection
function HexifySelection()
  editor:ReplaceSel(Hexify(editor:GetSelText()))
end

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Last edited August 31, 2006 7:47 pm GMT (diff)