Parses the input from hex encoded bytes, decoding the resulting bytes as a
string using the selected character set. If the input fields has a prefix
(other than 0x and 16#) then use regex()
or
replace()
to remove the prefix before using
parseHexString
. Any non-hex characters in
the input are ignored — the decoding attempts to decode all chars in
the field that match 0-9
or
A-F
. Case is ignored.
Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
as | string | optional[a] | _parsehexstring | Name of output field. | |
charset | string | optional[a] | UTF-8 | The charset to use when transforming bytes to string. | |
Valid Values | |||||
ISO-8859-1 | |||||
UTF-16BE | |||||
UTF-16LE | |||||
UTF-8 | |||||
field [b] | string | required | Specifies the field containing the hex string to use as input. | ||
[a] Optional parameters use their default value unless explicitly set. |
Hide omitted argument names for this function
Omitted Argument NamesThe argument name for
field
can be omitted; the following forms of this function are equivalent:logscaleparseHexString("field")
and:
logscaleparseHexString(field="field")
These examples show basic structure only.
parseHexString()
Examples
Parses the string 48656c6c6f576f726c64
from the field named
foo into the field text, getting the value
Helloworld:
foo := 48656c6c6f576f726c64
| parseHexString(foo, as=text, charset="ISO-8859-1")
Parses the string 0x4 865 6c6c6f576f726c6420 plus F 0 9 F 9 8 8
0
from the field named hex into the field
text, using UTF-8
and getting the value
Helloworld 😀 where the smiley is the result of decoding the trailing
digits:
hex := "0x4 865 6c6c6f576f726c6420 plus F 0 9 F 9 8 8 0"
| text := parseHexString(hex)