Re: Constructing and Manipulating Raw Strings

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:

> What is the best way to extract the individual bytes from hexadecimal
> string (output from md5) and using them as input into a call to
> unibyte-string()?
>
> I want to use this raw string as a key in a hash table for file types
> and then I don't want to waste space (size halves if we go from a
> hexadecimal string to a raw byte string).
>
> Does read() (or some of its variants) support reading raw unibyte
> strings (that may contain zero bytes).

You can use decode-hex-string instead:

(decode-hex-string "4142434445464748494a4b4c4d4e4f")
--> "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"

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