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From: David Neary <bolsh@gimp.org>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] converting strings of hex to ascii
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Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, David Neary wrote:
> 
> > > Actually the following would be in some way sensible:
> > > echo -e "`echo "$enc" | sed 's/%\([0-9a-fA-F]\{2,2\}\)/\\\x\1/g'`"
> > 
> > Why {2,2}? Why not {2}?
> 
> the above was something along the lines i was attempting, once i 
> realised it was a straight swap. but i couldnt get awk's gensub to 
> insert the \x for %'s and ='s.

Perl's pack() would do the job...

> > PS the late reply is because the footer on the original mail (If
> > you received this mail in error yadda yadda) got caught in my
> > spam filter, and ended up in my junkmail directory.
> 
> might not have been the footer - check my headers. :)

Actually, it was worse - a bodycheck showed up a "remove" URL. I
need a new spam filter (but I want to be able to process false
positives, rather than dump them).

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
       David Neary,
    Marseille, France
  E-Mail: bolsh@gimp.org

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