libraries/pcappp/include/pcapplusplus/GeneralUtils.h

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#ifndef PCAPPP_GENERAL_UTILS
#define PCAPPP_GENERAL_UTILS
#include <string>
#include <stdint.h>
/// @file
/**
* \namespace pcpp
* \brief The main namespace for the PcapPlusPlus lib
*/
namespace pcpp
{
/**
* Convert a byte array into a string of hex characters. For example: for the array { 0xaa, 0x2b, 0x10 } the string
* "aa2b10" will be returned
* @param[in] byteArr A byte array
* @param[in] byteArrSize The size of the byte array [in bytes]
* @param[in] stringSizeLimit An optional parameter that enables to limit the returned string size. If set to a positive
* integer value the returned string size will be equal or less than this value. If the string representation of the
* whole array is longer than this size then only part of the array will be read. The default value is -1 which means no
* string size limitation
* @return A string of hex characters representing the byte array
*/
std::string byteArrayToHexString(const uint8_t* byteArr, size_t byteArrSize, int stringSizeLimit = -1);
/**
* Convert a string of hex characters into a byte array. For example: for the string "aa2b10" an array of values
* { 0xaa, 0x2b, 0x10 } will be returned
* @param[in] hexString A string of hex characters
* @param[out] resultByteArr A pre-allocated byte array where the result will be written to
* @param[in] resultByteArrSize The size of the pre-allocated byte array
* @return The size of the result array. If the string represents an array that is longer than the pre-allocated size
* (resultByteArrSize) then the result array will contain only the part of the string that managed to fit into the
* array, and the returned size will be resultByteArrSize. However if the string represents an array that is shorter
* than the pre-allocated size then some of the cells will remain empty and contain zeros, and the returned size will
* be the part of the array that contain data. If the input is an illegal hex string 0 will be returned.
* Illegal hex string means odd number of characters or a string that contains non-hex characters
*/
size_t hexStringToByteArray(const std::string& hexString, uint8_t* resultByteArr, size_t resultByteArrSize);
/**
* This is a cross platform version of memmem (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/memmem.3.html) which is not supported
* on all platforms.
* @param[in] haystack A pointer to the buffer to be searched
* @param[in] haystackLen Length of the haystack buffer
* @param[in] needle A pointer to a buffer that will be searched for
* @param[in] needleLen Length of the needle buffer
* @return A pointer to the beginning of the substring, or NULL if the substring is not found
*/
char* cross_platform_memmem(const char* haystack, size_t haystackLen, const char* needle, size_t needleLen);
}
#endif // PCAPPP_GENERAL_UTILS