I have recently had the occasion to attempt to convert a HUGE string of hexadecimal into ASCII / Unicode (they are all alphanumeric characters). I tried using a few different hex editors, but they all truncated the string at around 100 characters or so.
I was beginning to become despondent, until I stumbled across this blog posting, indicating that WordPad can do the conversion.
I copied and pasted the gargantuan string of hex into WordPad, and found out that, sure enough, it performs the conversion correctly. About 20 minutes later, I had my readable list of filenames.
If anyone tries this on a long string, I would recommend using some sort of macro program, since it can only do one character at a time.
This quote from the blog entry sums it up best: "Isn't that awesome?! (OK, so I'm a dork.)"
Posted by wrodina at December 12, 2003 8:51 AM | TrackBack