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Text.EncodeToHex

Encode a hex string.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
Text	2.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "Text.EncodeToHex"; text { ; Encoding } ) More

(old name: String.EncodeToHex)

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags

text The text to process. "Hello World"

Encoding The text encoding for text parameter.
Default is native.
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

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
text	The text to process.	"Hello World"
Encoding	The text encoding for text parameter. Default is native. 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 encoded text.

Description

Encode a hex string.
Please check what text encoding you want to use. Especially what the software processing the hex string expects.

Similar to HexEncode function in FileMaker 16, but we can specify text encoding. For containers see Container.GetHex and Container.DecodeFromHex.

Examples

Encode Hex as UTF-8:

MBS( "Text.EncodeToHex"; "Hello World"; "utf8" )

Example result: 48656C6C6F20576F726C64

Check for hex encoding:

Length(MBS( "Text.EncodeToHex"; MBS( "Text.DecodeFromHex"; "41004200" )))

Example result: Returns 8 in FileMaker 16 and 6 in FileMaker 15 due to different text handling.

Example Databases

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 18th December 2017

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