Hex dump from inspector:inspector

[Klaranth]

Huhhila Make inspector:inspector do hex dump instead of " < invalid UTF-8 string > " when encountering junk; (preferably xxd-style hex dump).

[SwissalpS]

interesting. Any examples of nodes that produce that?

[Klaranth]

@SwissalpS Please ask Huhhila in-game.

[Klaranth]

I really wish Github would stop removing texts inside < > .... :P

[OgelGames]

I really wish Github would stop removing texts inside < > .... :P

You need to escape them with backslashes: \<player\>

[SwissalpS]

@SwissalpS Please ask Huhhila in-game.

please stop telling me that. The discusion is here. Huhhila reads these threads too. Besides, others may know too.

[Klaranth]

Huhhila @SwissalpS : added invalid-unicode testcase recently as O-155 in lga's museum (the random-colored digiterms:lcd_monitor).

[S-S-X]

abc to hex

local abc = ("abc"):gsub(".",
  function(c)
    return ("0x%x "):format(string.byte(c))
  end
)
-- abc == "0x61 0x62 0x63 "

not too clean and leaves extra space but gives basic idea how to do it easily.

edit. better format string for < 0x10 == "0x%02x" (to always have leading zero): Also shows that lua strings can represent any character, not null terminated (and lua strings are just byte arrays so also no encoding)

local s = "abc"
for i=0,9 do
  s = s .. string.char(i)
end

local hexdump = (s):gsub(".",
  function(c)
    return ("0x%02x "):format(string.byte(c))
  end
)

print('"'..hexdump..'"')
--[[ prints (leading zero too, no grouping, single line, has final trailing space):
"0x61 0x62 0x63 0x00 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08 0x09 "
--]]

So just add grouping / formatting / line breaks / whatever helpers.

If reordering bytes for different endianness is needed then probably best to do with number tables for buffering and to keep memory consumption sane for large strings.