Nmap Development: Re: [NSE][PATCH] string_ext library

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:54:06PM +0200, Sven Klemm wrote:
> > > Currently there is already a tohex() function in stdnse.lua which only
> > > works for numbers. It's probably best to rename my function to tohex()
> > > since this is more in line with the lua function names.
> > >
> > > Do you think we should put this function into its own module or do you
> > > think it should be added to stdnse?
> > I would actually recommend extending the tohex() function to handle
> > strings or numbers. Perhaps the other functions could be extended in
> > the same way as well.
> I've attached a patch which extends stdnse.tohex() to support strings  
> and numbers and the new formatting options and adjusts the documentation 
> accordingly.
I think this is a great idea. I was surprised at this difference in
behavior:

stdnse.tohex("abc",{separator=":",group=2}) => "6162:63"
stdnse.tohex(123456,{separator=":",group=2}) => "1:e240"

When the argument is a string, grouping is done left to right, and when
it is a number grouping is done right to left. I expected it to go right
to left in both cases, but maybe there's a good reason to do it
otherwise?

David Fifield

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