hexdump.java

// Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Brian Wellington (bwelling@xbill.org)

package org.xbill.DNS.utils;

/**
 * A routine to produce a nice looking hex dump
 *
 * @author Brian Wellington
 */

public class hexdump {

private static final char [] hex = "0123456789ABCDEF".toCharArray();

/**
 * Dumps a byte array into hex format.
 * @param description If not null, a description of the data.
 * @param b The data to be printed.
 * @param offset The start of the data in the array.
 * @param length The length of the data in the array.
 */
public static String
dump(String description, byte [] b, int offset, int length) {
	StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

	sb.append(length + "b");
	if (description != null)
		sb.append(" (" + description + ")");
	sb.append(':');

	int prefixlen = sb.toString().length();
	prefixlen = (prefixlen + 8) & ~ 7;
	sb.append('\t');

	int perline = (80 - prefixlen) / 3;
	for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
		if (i != 0 && i % perline == 0) {
			sb.append('\n');
			for (int j = 0; j < prefixlen / 8 ; j++)
				sb.append('\t');
		}
		int value = (int)(b[i + offset]) & 0xFF;
		sb.append(hex[(value >> 4)]);
		sb.append(hex[(value & 0xF)]);
		sb.append(' ');
	}
	sb.append('\n');
	return sb.toString();
}

public static String
dump(String s, byte [] b) {
	return dump(s, b, 0, b.length);
}

}