Converting Hex String to NSData in Swift

Question

I got the code to convert String to HEX-String in objective-C.

- (NSString *) CreateDataWithHexString:(NSString*)inputString
{
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Answer 1

convert hex string to data and string:

Swift1

func dataWithHexString(hex: String) -> NSData {
    var hex = hex
    let data = NSMutableData()
    while(countElements(hex) > 0) {
        var c: String = hex.substringToIndex(advance(hex.startIndex, 2))
        hex = hex.substringFromIndex(advance(hex.startIndex, 2))
        var ch: UInt32 = 0
        NSScanner(string: c).scanHexInt(&ch)
        data.appendBytes(&ch, length: 1)
    }
    return data
}

use:

let data = dataWithHexString("68656c6c6f2c20776f726c64") // <68656c6c 6f2c2077 6f726c64>
if let string = NSString(data: data, encoding: 1) {
    print(string) // hello, world
}

Swift2

func dataWithHexString(hex: String) -> NSData {
    var hex = hex
    let data = NSMutableData()
    while(hex.characters.count > 0) {
        let c: String = hex.substringToIndex(hex.startIndex.advancedBy(2))
        hex = hex.substringFromIndex(hex.startIndex.advancedBy(2))
        var ch: UInt32 = 0
        NSScanner(string: c).scanHexInt(&ch)
        data.appendBytes(&ch, length: 1)
    }
    return data
}

use:

let data = dataWithHexString("68656c6c6f2c20776f726c64") // <68656c6c 6f2c2077 6f726c64>
if let string = String(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
    print(string) //"hello, world"
}

Swift3

func dataWithHexString(hex: String) -> Data {
    var hex = hex
    var data = Data()
    while(hex.characters.count > 0) {
        let c: String = hex.substring(to: hex.index(hex.startIndex, offsetBy: 2))
        hex = hex.substring(from: hex.index(hex.startIndex, offsetBy: 2))
        var ch: UInt32 = 0
        Scanner(string: c).scanHexInt32(&ch)
        var char = UInt8(ch)
        data.append(&char, count: 1)
    }
    return data
}

use:

let data = dataWithHexString(hex: "68656c6c6f2c20776f726c64") // <68656c6c 6f2c2077 6f726c64>
let string = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) // "hello, world"

Swift4

func dataWithHexString(hex: String) -> Data {
    var hex = hex
    var data = Data()
    while(hex.count > 0) {
        let subIndex = hex.index(hex.startIndex, offsetBy: 2)
        let c = String(hex[..

use:

let data = dataWithHexString(hex: "68656c6c6f2c20776f726c64") // <68656c6c 6f2c2077 6f726c64>
let string = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) // "hello, world"