Convert two ASCII Hexadecimal Characters (Two ASCII bytes) in one byte

Question

I want to convert two ASCII bytes to one hexadecimal byte. eg.

0x30 0x43 => 0x0C , 0x34 0x46 => 0x4F ...

The ASCII bytes are a number bet

Answer 1

The task:

Convert a string containing hexadecimal ascii characters to its byte values so ascii "FF" becomes 0xFF and ascii "10" (x31x30x00) becomes 0x10

char asciiString[]="aaAA12fF";// input ascii hex string 
char result[4];               // byte equivalent of the asciiString (the size should be at half of asciiString[])

// the final result should be:

result[0] = 0xAA;
result[1] = 0xAA;       
result[2] = 0x12;
result[3] = 0xFF;

//1. Firt step: convert asciiString so it contains upper cases only:

// convert string to upper cases:
stringToUpperCases(asciiString);

use:

void stringToUpperCases(char *p)
{   
    for(int i=0; *(p+i) !='\0'; i++)
    {
        *(p+i) = (unsigned char) toupper( *(p+i) );
    }
}

//2. Convert a string containing hexadecimal ascii characters to its byte values:

// convert string to bytes:

int nrOfBytes = stringToBytes(asciiString,result);

//use:  
unsigned char charToHexDigit(char c)
{
if (c >= 'A')
    return (c - 'A' + 10);
else
    return (c - '0');
}

unsigned char ascii2HexToByte(char *ptr)
{
    return charToHexDigit( *ptr )*16 + charToHexDigit( *(ptr+1) );
}

int stringToBytes(char *string, char *result)
{
    int k=0;
    int strLen = strlen(string);

    for(int i = 0; i < strLen; i = i + 2)
    {
        result[k] = ascii2HexToByte( &string[i] );
        k++;
    }

    return k; // number of bytes in the result array 
}   

//3. print result:

printNrOfBytes(nrOfBytes, result);

// use:

void printNrOfBytes(int nr, char *p)
{
   for(int i= 0; i < nr; i++)
    {
        printf( "0x%02X ", (unsigned char)*(p+i) );
    }
    printf( "\n");
}

//4. The result should be:

0xAA 0xAA 0x12 0xFF

//5. This is the test program:

char asciiString[]="aaAA12fF"; // input ascii hex string 
char result[4];                // result  
// convert string to upper cases:
stringToUpperCases(asciiString);

// convert string to bytes
int nrOfBytes = stringToBytes(asciiString,result);

// print result:
printNrOfBytes(nrOfBytes, result);

// result:
//  0xAA 0xAA 0x12 0xFF