Converting A String To Hexadecimal In Java

Question

I am trying to convert a string like \"testing123\" into hexadecimal form in java. I am currently using BlueJ.

And to convert it back, is it the same thing except b

Answer 1

Here an other solution

public static String toHexString(byte[] ba) {
    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
    for(int i = 0; i < ba.length; i++)
        str.append(String.format("%x", ba[i]));
    return str.toString();
}

public static String fromHexString(String hex) {
    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0; i < hex.length(); i+=2) {
        str.append((char) Integer.parseInt(hex.substring(i, i + 2), 16));
    }
    return str.toString();
}

Answer 2

Convert a letter in hex code and hex code in letter.

        String letter = "a";
    String code;
    int decimal;

    code = Integer.toHexString(letter.charAt(0));
    decimal = Integer.parseInt(code, 16);

    System.out.println("Hex code to " + letter + " = " + code);
    System.out.println("Char to " + code + " = " + (char) decimal);

Answer 3

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;
...

String hexString = Hex.encodeHexString(myString.getBytes(/* charset */));

http://commons.apache.org/codec/apidocs/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/Hex.html

Answer 4

byte[] bytes = string.getBytes(CHARSET); // you didn't say what charset you wanted
BigInteger bigInt = new BigInteger(bytes);
String hexString = bigInt.toString(16); // 16 is the radix

You could return hexString at this point, with the caveat that leading null-chars will be stripped, and the result will have an odd length if the first byte is less than 16. If you need to handle those cases, you can add some extra code to pad with 0s:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while ((sb.length() + hexString.length()) < (2 * bytes.length)) {
  sb.append("0");
}
sb.append(hexString);
return sb.toString();

Answer 5

Here's a short way to convert it to hex:

public String toHex(String arg) {
    return String.format("%040x", new BigInteger(1, arg.getBytes(/*YOUR_CHARSET?*/)));
}

Answer 6

The numbers that you encode into hexadecimal must represent some encoding of the characters, such as UTF-8. So first convert the String to a byte[] representing the string in that encoding, then convert each byte to hexadecimal.

public static String hexadecimal(String input, String charsetName) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
    if (input == null) throw new NullPointerException();
    return asHex(input.getBytes(charsetName));
}

private static final char[] HEX_CHARS = "0123456789abcdef".toCharArray();

public static String asHex(byte[] buf)
{
    char[] chars = new char[2 * buf.length];
    for (int i = 0; i < buf.length; ++i)
    {
        chars[2 * i] = HEX_CHARS[(buf[i] & 0xF0) >>> 4];
        chars[2 * i + 1] = HEX_CHARS[buf[i] & 0x0F];
    }
    return new String(chars);
}