Re: Hex > Text
Re: Hex > Text
- Subject: Re: Hex > Text
- From: Loukas Kalenderidis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:17:16 +1000
Hi,
To extract the resource from the file you could use DeRez (part of the
developer tools) as follows:
$ /Developer/Tools/DeRez -only drag foo.textClipping |sed -e
's/^[^\"]*\"\([^\"]*\)\".*$/\1/'|grep -v "data"|grep -v "};"|sed 's/
//g'|tr -d '\n'
as a `do shell script' from AS (appropriately/horribly escaped):
do shell script "/Developer/Tools/DeRez -only drag
~/Desktop/foo.textClipping |sed -e
's/^[^\\\"]*\"\\([^\\\"]*\\)\\\".*$/\\1/'|grep -v \"data\"|grep -v
\"};\"|sed 's/ //g'|tr -d '\n'"
And to convert to text, pipe the output of the last command to:
sed 's/\(..\)/0x\1 /g'|tr ' ' '\n' |xargs printf "%d\n"|perl -e
'while(<>){printf("%c",$_)}'
AS version:
do shell script "echo " & theHex & "|sed 's/\\(..\\)/0x\\1 /g'|tr ' '
'\\n'|xargs printf \"%d\\n\"|perl -e 'while(<>){printf(\"%c\",$_)}'"
(where theHex is the output from the last command)
That said, i can't see how converting a `drag' resource to text is of
any use since its a binary resource and not a very interesting one at
that. The text data for a clipping is located in the TEXT resource.
Anyway, hope this helps.
Loukas
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Loukas Kalenderidis
Angier Consulting Pty Ltd
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