Bin2Hex.pl - Converting Binary Data to Hex Numbers

This section provides a tutorial example on how to convert binary data file to hex numbers - Bin2Hex.pl.

As another example, I wrote Bin2Hex.pl to convert binary data to hex numbers:

#- Bin2Hex.pl
#- Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#
   ($in, $out) = @ARGV;
   die "Missing input file name.\n" unless $in;
   die "Missing output file name.\n" unless $out;
   $byteCount = 0;
   open(IN, "< $in");
   binmode(IN);
   open(OUT, "> $out");
   while (read(IN,$b,32)) {
      $n = length($b);
      $byteCount += $n;
      $s = 2*$n;
      print (OUT unpack("H$s", $b), "\n");
   }
   close(IN);
   close(OUT);
   print "Number of bytes converted = $byteCount\n";
   exit;

Of course, I had to write Hex2Bin.pl to convert hex numbers back to binary data:

#- Hex2Bin.pl
#- Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#
   ($in, $out) = @ARGV;
   die "Missing input file name.\n" unless $in;
   die "Missing output file name.\n" unless $out;
   $byteCount = 0;
   open(IN, "< $in");
   open(OUT, "> $out");
   binmode(OUT);
   while (<IN>) {
      chop;
      $s = length($_);
      $byteCount += $s/2;
      print (OUT pack("H$s", $_));
   }
   close(IN);
   close(OUT);
   print "Number of bytes converted = $byteCount\n";
   exit;

To test this program, I used the following commands:

herong> copy c:\windows\system32\find.exe find.exe
        1 file(s) copied.

herong> Bin2Hex.pl find.exe find.hex
Number of bytes converted = 17408

herong> hex2Bin.pl find.hex find_copy.exe
Number of bytes converted = 17408

herong> dir find*.*
           17,408 find.exe
           35,904 find.hex
           17,408 find_copy.exe

herong> find_copy.exe /?

Searches for a text string in a file or files.
FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] "string" ...
...

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Bin2Hex.pl - Converting Binary Data to Hex Numbers

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