Question

I’m curious to know if there is an easy way (ie. using clib, stl or stdlib functions) to convert a formatted (encoded?) byte string into an array of bytes (unsigned chars):

Example, formatted byte string:
\x8C\xB5{\x00\x00

to:
{ 0x8C, 0xB5, 0x7B, 0x00, 0x00 }

Answer 1

What you’re asking is decoding an encoded string into a plain array of chars.

To answer you question, no (AFAIK).

But can implemented quite easily.

Take a look at this.

http://www.dzone.com/snippets/decode-encoded-query-string-c

Does exactly what you aksed in 26 lines of code. Only difference a % istead of \x