Hex to char array in C

Question

Given a string of hex values i.e. e.g. \"0011223344\" so that\'s 0x00, 0x11 etc.

How do I add these values to a char array?

Equivalent to say:

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Answer 1

If the string is correct and no need to keep its content then i would do it this way:

#define hex(c) ((*(c)>='a')?*(c)-'a'+10:(*(c)>='A')?*(c)-'A'+10:*(c)-'0') 

void hex2char( char *to ){
  for(char *from=to; *from; from+=2) *to++=hex(from)*16+hex(from+1);
  *to=0;
}

EDIT 1: sorry, i forget to calculate with the letters A-F (a-f)

EDIT 2: i tried to write a more pedantic code:

#include  

int xdigit( char digit ){
  int val;
       if( '0' <= digit && digit <= '9' ) val = digit -'0';
  else if( 'a' <= digit && digit <= 'f' ) val = digit -'a'+10;
  else if( 'A' <= digit && digit <= 'F' ) val = digit -'A'+10;
  else                                    val = -1;
  return val;
}

int xstr2str( char *buf, unsigned bufsize, const char *in ){
  if( !in ) return -1; // missing input string

  unsigned inlen=strlen(in);
  if( inlen%2 != 0 ) return -2; // hex string must even sized

  for( unsigned i=0; i

Testing:

#include  

char buf[100] = "test";

void test( char *buf, const char *s ){
   printf("%3i=xstr2str( \"%s\", 100, \"%s\" )\n", xstr2str( buf, 100, s ), buf, s );
}

int main(){
  test( buf,      (char*)0   );
  test( buf,      "123"      );
  test( buf,      "3x"       );
  test( (char*)0, ""         );
  test( buf,      ""         );
  test( buf,      "3C3e"     );
  test( buf,      "3c31323e" );

  strcpy( buf,    "616263"   ); test( buf, buf );
}

Result:

 -1=xstr2str( "test", 100, "(null)" )
 -2=xstr2str( "test", 100, "123" )
 -3=xstr2str( "test", 100, "3x" )
 -4=xstr2str( "(null)", 100, "" )
  1=xstr2str( "", 100, "" )
  3=xstr2str( "", 100, "3C3e" )
  5=xstr2str( "", 100, "3c31323e" )
  4=xstr2str( "abc", 100, "abc" )