Converting HEX to ASCII in Lua Dissector

ascii, hex, lua, wireshark

Solution

I'm not sure what you mean by hex bytes, but the relevant functions are:

`string.byte`, which converts chars to numerical codes

`string.char`, which converts numerical codes to chars

Problem

I'm trying to take HEX bytes and display them as their ASCII values. If someone could point me reasonably firmly in the right direction I'd be obliged. Tried any number of uint-type commands, and working with buffer(x, 2) as an argument.

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