Creating hex dump in Objective-C

Question

I want to create a hex dump of a binary file in Mac OS X.

In all apps in Mac OS, when you navigate to /Contents/Resources/, there is a file (or more) with the same name as the app.

I want to write an application in Objective-C that can read that file and convert it to some kind of a hex dump, like terminal's hexdump.

Does anybody know a way to create such a hex dump using Objective-C? (or perhaps an open source hex editor, written in objective-c?)

Thanks in advance.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '11 at 03:31

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Hex Fiend is embeddable, if it's an editor that you're after.

answered Jul 10 '11 at 03:31

ergosys

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 09 '11 at 22:31

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Use NSData to read the file as raw data, then display the bytes however you want (for example, using a format string).

answered Jul 09 '11 at 22:31

jtbandes

I used this solution, since this is actually all I want. Thanks for the information! – Bas Jansen Jul 10 '11 at 16:35

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