bytes.go

// Copyright 2014 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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// Package common contains various helper functions.
package common

import "encoding/hex"

// ToHex returns the hex representation of b, prefixed with '0x'.
// For empty slices, the return value is "0x0".
//
// Deprecated: use hexutil.Encode instead.
func ToHex(b []byte) string {
	hex := Bytes2Hex(b)
	if len(hex) == 0 {
		hex = "0"
	}
	return "0x" + hex
}

// FromHex returns the bytes represented by the hexadecimal string s.
// s may be prefixed with "0x".
func FromHex(s string) []byte {
	if len(s) > 1 {
		if s[0:2] == "0x" || s[0:2] == "0X" {
			s = s[2:]
		}
	}
	if len(s)%2 == 1 {
		s = "0" + s
	}
	return Hex2Bytes(s)
}

// CopyBytes returns an exact copy of the provided bytes.
func CopyBytes(b []byte) (copiedBytes []byte) {
	if b == nil {
		return nil
	}
	copiedBytes = make([]byte, len(b))
	copy(copiedBytes, b)

	return
}

// hasHexPrefix validates str begins with '0x' or '0X'.
func hasHexPrefix(str string) bool {
	return len(str) >= 2 && str[0] == '0' && (str[1] == 'x' || str[1] == 'X')
}

// isHexCharacter returns bool of c being a valid hexadecimal.
func isHexCharacter(c byte) bool {
	return ('0' <= c && c <= '9') || ('a' <= c && c <= 'f') || ('A' <= c && c <= 'F')
}

// isHex validates whether each byte is valid hexadecimal string.
func isHex(str string) bool {
	if len(str)%2 != 0 {
		return false
	}
	for _, c := range []byte(str) {
		if !isHexCharacter(c) {
			return false
		}
	}
	return true
}

// Bytes2Hex returns the hexadecimal encoding of d.
func Bytes2Hex(d []byte) string {
	return hex.EncodeToString(d)
}

// Hex2Bytes returns the bytes represented by the hexadecimal string str.
func Hex2Bytes(str string) []byte {
	h, _ := hex.DecodeString(str)
	return h
}

// Hex2BytesFixed returns bytes of a specified fixed length flen.
func Hex2BytesFixed(str string, flen int) []byte {
	h, _ := hex.DecodeString(str)
	if len(h) == flen {
		return h
	}
	if len(h) > flen {
		return h[len(h)-flen:]
	}
	hh := make([]byte, flen)
	copy(hh[flen-len(h):flen], h[:])
	return hh
}

// RightPadBytes zero-pads slice to the right up to length l.
func RightPadBytes(slice []byte, l int) []byte {
	if l <= len(slice) {
		return slice
	}

	padded := make([]byte, l)
	copy(padded, slice)

	return padded
}

// LeftPadBytes zero-pads slice to the left up to length l.
func LeftPadBytes(slice []byte, l int) []byte {
	if l <= len(slice) {
		return slice
	}

	padded := make([]byte, l)
	copy(padded[l-len(slice):], slice)

	return padded
}