Text.DecodeFromHex

Decode a hex string.

(old name: String.DecodeFromHex)

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
text	The text to process.	"48656C6C6F20576F726C64"
Encoding	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, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.	"UTF-8"	Optional

Result

Returns decoded text.

Description

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>

Decode emojis:

MBS( "Text.DecodeFromHex"; "F09F8D8E20F09F8D9320F09F8D92"; "UTF-8" )

Example result: 🍎 🍓 🍒

See also

• Socket.Connect
• Socket.WriteHex
• Text.ConvertToTextEncoding
• Text.DecodeFromBase64
• Text.DecodeFromBytes
• Text.DecodeFromHTML
• Text.DecodeFromURL
• Text.DecodeFromXML
• Text.EncodeToHex

Example Databases

• Text functions/Repair Text Encoding Problems

Blog Entries

• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.3pr1
• MBS Filemaker Plugin 2.4 release notes
• MBS Filemaker Plugin, version 2.4pr8

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 31st January 2023

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