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

It's works, but could be much optimized !

inline uint8_t  twoAsciiByteToByte(const std::string& s)
{
    uint8_t r = 0;

    if (s.length() == 4)
    {
        uint8_t a = asciiToByte(s[0]);
        uint8_t b = asciiToByte(s[1]);
        uint8_t c = asciiToByte(s[2]);
        uint8_t d = asciiToByte(s[3]);

        int h = (a * 10 + b);
        int l = (c * 10 + d);

        if (s[0] == '3')
            h -= 30;
        else if (s[0] == '4')
            h -= 31;

        if (s[2] == '3')
            l -= 30;
        else if (s[2] == '4')
            l -= 31;

        r = (h << 4) | l;
    }

    return r;
}