hex2bin
Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string
Description
stringfalse hex2bin(string $string)
Caution
This function does NOT convert a hexadecimal number to a binary
number. This can be done using the base_convert function.
Parameters
-
string
-
Hexadecimal representation of data.
Return Values
Returns the binary representation of the given data or false on failure.
Errors/Exceptions
If the hexadecimal input string is of odd length or invalid hexadecimal string
an E_WARNING level error is thrown.
Examples
Example #1 hex2bin example
<?php
$hex = hex2bin("6578616d706c65206865782064617461");
var_dump($hex);
?>
The above example will output
something similar to:
string(16) "example hex data"