Re: Convert a hex string into a ubyte[] or OutBuffer

[Darren via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 12:28:14 UTC, anonymous wrote:
On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 11:36:43 UTC, Darren wrote:

Is there an idiomatic/simple way to do that?

import std.conv: parse;
import std.array: array;
import std.range: chunks;
import std.algorithm: map;

ubyte[] bytes = hexnum /* "16D8..." */
     .chunks(2) /* "16", "D8", ... */
     .map!(twoDigits => twoDigits.parse!ubyte(16)) /* 0x16, 
0xD8,
... */
     .array();

Nice, thanks! I've added a slightly edited version as the answer 
to this question on stackoverflow: 
http://stackoverflow.com/a/23741556/47481