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Text.DecodeFromHex
Decode a hex string.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Server | FileMaker Cloud | FileMaker iOS SDK |
Text | 2.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
(old name: String.DecodeFromHex)
Parameters
Parameter | Description | Example value |
---|---|---|
text | The text to process. | "48656C6C6F20576F726C64" |
Encoding | Optional The text encoding for result. Default is native. This function can also handle UTF-16 as well as UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE for little/big endian byte order. Possible encoding names: ANSI, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform. |
"UTF-8" |
Result
Returns decoded text.
Description
Decode a hex string.Examples
Decode Hex as UTF-8:
MBS( "Text.DecodeFromHex"; "48656C6C6F20576F726C64"; "utf8" )
Example result: Hello World
Fix encoding of a string:
MBS("Text.DecodeFromHex"; MBS("Text.EncodeToHex"; "<string>Eine Möbel-Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H</string>"; "Native"); "UTF-8")
Example result: <string>Eine Möbel-Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H</string>
See also
- Socket.Connect
- Socket.WriteHex
- Text.DecodeFromBase64
- Text.DecodeFromBytes
- Text.DecodeFromHTML
- Text.DecodeFromURL
- Text.DecodeFromXML
- Text.EncodeToHex
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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016
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