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Get a string representation of your NSData with or without spaces or capitals
//
// NSData+Hex.h
//
// Based on code by AliSoftware
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/7520723/60488
//
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@interface NSData (Hex)
- (NSString *)hexRepresentationWithSpaces:(BOOL)spaces capitals:(BOOL)capitals;
@end
//
// NSData+Hex.m
//
// Based on code by AliSoftware
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/7520723/60488
//
#import "NSData+Hex.h"
@implementation NSData (Hex)
- (NSString *)hexRepresentationWithSpaces:(BOOL)spaces capitals:(BOOL)capitals {
const unsigned char *bytes = (const unsigned char *)[self bytes];
NSUInteger nbBytes = [self length];
// If spaces is true, insert a space every this many input bytes (twice this many output characters).
static const NSUInteger spaceEveryThisManyBytes = 4UL;
// If spaces is true, insert a line-break instead of a space every this many spaces.
static const NSUInteger lineBreakEveryThisManySpaces = 4UL;
const NSUInteger lineBreakEveryThisManyBytes = spaceEveryThisManyBytes * lineBreakEveryThisManySpaces;
NSUInteger strLen = 2 * nbBytes + (spaces ? nbBytes / spaceEveryThisManyBytes : 0);
NSMutableString *hex = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithCapacity:strLen];
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < nbBytes; ) {
if (capitals) {
[hex appendFormat:@"%02X", bytes[i]];
} else {
[hex appendFormat:@"%02x", bytes[i]];
}
// We need to increment here so that the every-n-bytes computations are right.
++i;
if (spaces) {
if (i % lineBreakEveryThisManyBytes == 0) {
[hex appendString:@"\n"];
} else if (i % spaceEveryThisManyBytes == 0) {
[hex appendString:@" "];
}
}
}
return [hex autorelease];
}
@end
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