Thread: Print Hexadecimal Numbers Of a File

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    Question Print Hexadecimal Numbers Of a File

    Hello,
    I'm now developing a home project, but before I start, I need to know how can I print the content of a file(*.bin as example) in hexadecimal.

    I like to learn, then a good tutorial is very nice too

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    x for lowercase hex letters, X for uppercase letters

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    I'm not sure but I suggest reading every character and then using the printf function with %hhx to print every byte of the file.
    for example:
    char c
    while file has next
    c = next character
    printf("%hhx", c)

    That's what I would try first.

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    You'd probably want to fread() BUFSIZ bytes at a time ("The value of BUFSIZ is chosen on each system so as to make stream I/O efficient."). Then use printf() as above -- although that might be a little slow depending on how many characters you have.

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    If Linux:

    od -t x1 filename.bin
    Code:
    //try
    //{
    	if (a) do { f( b); } while(1);
    	else   do { f(!b); } while(1);
    //}

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