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Text-base hexadecimal viewer of the content of a Stream for C#
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static string DumpStreamToHexString(Stream stream, long startPosition, int length) | |
{ | |
const int BytesPerRow = 0x10; | |
const char horizontalBar = '─'; // or '|' for non-Unicode terminals | |
const char verticalBar = '│'; // or '-' for non-Unicode terminals | |
const char crossBar = '┼'; // or '|' for non-Unicode terminals | |
byte[] buffer = new byte[length]; | |
int read = stream.Read(buffer); | |
var content = new StringBuilder(); | |
var textLineBuilder = new StringBuilder(); | |
// Header | |
content.AppendFormat("Offset {0} ", verticalBar); | |
for (int i = 0; i < BytesPerRow; i++) { | |
content.AppendFormat("{0:X2} ", i); | |
} | |
content.AppendFormat("{0} ASCII\n", verticalBar); | |
content.Append(new string(horizontalBar, 9)); | |
content.Append(crossBar); | |
content.Append(new string(horizontalBar, 1 + (BytesPerRow * 3))); | |
content.Append(crossBar); | |
content.AppendLine(new string(horizontalBar, 1 + (BytesPerRow * 2))); | |
// For each line: offset, hex content and text content | |
content.AppendFormat("{0:X8} {1} ", startPosition, verticalBar); | |
for (int i = 0; i < read; i++) { | |
char ch = (buffer[i] >= 0x21 && buffer[i] <= 0x7F) ? (char)buffer[i] : '.'; | |
textLineBuilder.AppendFormat("{0} ", ch); | |
if (i != 0 && ((i + 1) % BytesPerRow == 0)) { | |
content.AppendFormat("{0:X2} {2} {1}\n", buffer[i], textLineBuilder.ToString(), verticalBar); | |
content.AppendFormat("{0:X8} {1} ", startPosition + (i + 1), verticalBar); | |
textLineBuilder.Clear(); | |
} else { | |
content.AppendFormat("{0:X2} ", buffer[i]); | |
} | |
} | |
return content.ToString(); | |
} | |
// Create a test Stream | |
byte[] randomData = new byte[1024]; | |
Random.Shared.NextBytes(randomData); | |
// Show the content via console | |
string hexDump = DumpStreamToHexString(stream, 0, (int)stream.Length); | |
Console.WriteLine(hexDump); | |
// Output: | |
// Offset | 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F | ASCII | |
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
// 00000000 | D6 3D A6 D7 ED 24 C1 35 10 11 5A 3D 29 49 FC AE | . = . . . $ . 5 . . Z = ) I . . | |
// 00000010 | 94 93 B6 37 8B 23 B0 68 78 54 70 DE D4 9A 0F 2C | . . . 7 . # . h x T p . . . . , |
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