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Groovy Goodness: Converting Byte Array to Hex String

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To convert a byte[] array to a String we can simply use the new String(byte[]) constructor. But if the array contains non-printable bytes we don't get a good representation. In Groovy we can use the method encodeHex() to transform a byte[] array to a hex String value. The byteelements are converted to their hexadecimal equivalents.

final byte[] printable = [109, 114, 104, 97, 107, 105]

// array with non-printable bytes 6, 27 (ACK, ESC)
final byte[] nonprintable = [109, 114, 6, 27, 104, 97, 107, 105]


assert new String(printable) == 'mrhaki'
assert new String(nonprintable) != 'mr  haki'


// encodeHex() returns a Writable
final Writable printableHex = printable.encodeHex()
assert printableHex.toString() == '6d7268616b69'
final nonprintableHex = nonprintable.encodeHex().toString()
assert nonprintableHex == '6d72061b68616b69'


// Convert back
assert nonprintableHex.decodeHex() == nonprintable

Code written with Groovy 2.2.1

Data structure Groovy (programming language) Data Types Strings

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