hex/binary string conversion in Swift

Question

Python has two very useful library method (binascii.a2b_hex(keyStr) and binascii.hexlify(keyBytes)) which I have been struggling with in Swift. Is there anything readily ava

Answer 1

Swift 2

extension NSData {
    class func dataFromHexString(hex: String) -> NSData? {
        let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: "^[0-9a-zA-Z]*$", options: .CaseInsensitive)
        let validate = regex.firstMatchInString(hex, options: NSMatchingOptions.init(rawValue: 0), range: NSRange(location: 0, length: hex.characters.count))
        if validate == nil || hex.characters.count % 2 != 0 {
            return nil
        }
        let data = NSMutableData()
        for i in 0..