{"id":1269,"date":"2009-04-20T05:13:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-04-20T05:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:13:55","slug":"how-to-make-a-quick-dirty-hexviewer-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-make-a-quick-dirty-hexviewer-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make a Quick & Dirty HexViewer – Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I received comments from ispak on Flickr<\/a> I made a few fixes.<\/p>\n

ispak pointed out that it was a bad idea reading one byte at the time, also I had a gay ass try\/catch that didn’t catch any exception :p<\/p>\n

So now I read 16 byte chunks, and I also take care of the file ending. The previous version used to print the file ending with a bunch of null bytes. Now it stops reading at the end, and formats the output accordingly.<\/p>\n

Here’s the new source:<\/p>\n

[java]
\n\/\/HexViewer.java
\nimport java.io.*;<\/p>\n

public final class HexViewer {
\n public final static void printFile(String filePath) {
\n try {
\n File f = new File(filePath);
\n BufferedInputStream bis =
\n new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(f));<\/p>\n

byte[] chunk = null;
\n int readStatus = 0;
\n while (true) {
\n chunk = new byte[16];
\n readStatus = bis.read(chunk, 0, 16);
\n char[] line = new char[16];<\/p>\n

if (readStatus == -1)
\n break;<\/p>\n

for (byte i=0; i < readStatus; i++) {
\n int readByte = (chunk[i] < 0) ? (-1 * (int) chunk[i]) : chunk[i];
\n String paddingZero = (readByte < 16) ? "0" : "";
\n System.out.print(paddingZero + Integer.toHexString(readByte).toUpperCase() + " ");
\n line[i] = (readByte >= 33 && readByte <= 126) ? (char) readByte : ‘.’;
\n }<\/p>\n

\/\/We add some padding to print the text line right below the one above.
\n String padding = new String();
\n if (readStatus < 16) {
\n for (byte i=0; i < 16-readStatus; i++) {
\n padding += " ";
\n }
\n }<\/p>\n

System.out.println(padding + new String(line));
\n }
\n } catch (Exception e1) { e1.printStackTrace(); }
\n }<\/p>\n

public final static void main(String[] args) {
\n if (args.length == 0)
\n return;<\/p>\n

printFile(args[0]);
\n }
\n}
\n[\/java]<\/p>\n

\"HexViewer<\/a><\/p>\n

And see how it now handles file endings when the file size is not a multiple of 16 :p<\/p>\n

\"Picture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I received comments from ispak on Flickr I made a few fixes. ispak pointed out that it was a bad idea reading one byte at the time, also I had a gay ass try\/catch that didn’t catch any exception :p So now I read 16 byte chunks, and I also take care of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,43],"tags":[1437,584],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-linux","tag-code","tag-java-hex-hexviewer-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-kt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1928,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/droid-vs-nexus-1-who-can-calculate-md5-faster\/","url_meta":{"origin":1269,"position":0},"title":"Droid vs Nexus 1: Who can calculate MD5 faster?","author":"gubatron","date":"May 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Nexus 1 indeed. 17 files get their MD5 calculated on the Droid and 17 files get their MD5 hash calculated on the Nexus 1 Nexus 1 pwns. 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