Char array to hex string C++

Question

I searched char* to hex string before but implementation I found adds some non-existent garbage at the end of hex string. I receive pa

Answer 1

Code snippet above provides incorrect byte order in string, so I fixed it a bit.

char const hex[16] = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A',   'B','C','D','E','F'};

std::string byte_2_str(char* bytes, int size) {
  std::string str;
  for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
    const char ch = bytes[i];
    str.append(&hex[(ch  & 0xF0) >> 4], 1);
    str.append(&hex[ch & 0xF], 1);
  }
  return str;
}

Answer 2

Supposing data is a char*. Working example using std::hex:

for(int i=0; i<data_length; ++i)
    std::cout << std::hex << (int)data[i];

Or if you want to keep it all in a string:

std::stringstream ss;
for(int i=0; i<data_length; ++i)
    ss << std::hex << (int)data[i];
std::string mystr = ss.str();