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
{
NSUInteger inLength = [inputSt         


        

Answer 1

One more solution that is simple to follow and leverages swifts built-in hex parsing

func convertHexToBytes(_ str: String) -> Data? {
    let values = str.compactMap { $0.hexDigitValue } // map char to value of 0-15 or nil
    if values.count == str.count && values.count % 2 == 0 {
        var data = Data()
        for x in stride(from: 0, to: values.count, by: 2) {
          let byte = (values[x] << 4) + values[x+1] // concat high and low bits
          data.append(UInt8(byte))
        }
        return data
    }
    return nil
}

let good = "e01AFd"
let bad = "e0671"
let ugly = "GT40"
print("\(convertHexToBytes(good))") // Optional(3 bytes)
print("\(convertHexToBytes(bad))") // nil
print("\(convertHexToBytes(ugly))") // nil