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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-10-02 00:11:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-10-02 09:35:38 +0200 |
| commit | 2dd53e82f1ec3de8a9ecc1261ca4d9077506a9bb (patch) | |
| tree | df3a145f88537d2cc9e92776766bdd18feb0f2d9 /tests/FILEFORMAT.md | |
| parent | 01327600e3a9f0bd23383eb21ad7dcdc84a0c249 (diff) | |
| download | curl-2dd53e82f1ec3de8a9ecc1261ca4d9077506a9bb.tar.gz | |
runtests: allow generating a binary sequence from hex
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diff --git a/tests/FILEFORMAT.md b/tests/FILEFORMAT.md index 09600d016..7748b6706 100644 --- a/tests/FILEFORMAT.md +++ b/tests/FILEFORMAT.md @@ -40,6 +40,19 @@ server's port number (in ASCII) followed by a space and the hexadecimal byte %b64[%HTTPPORT %9a]b64% +## Hexadecimal decoding + +In the preprocess stage, a special instruction can be used to have runtests.pl +generate a sequence of binary bytes. + +To insert a sequence of bytes from a hex encoded string, use this syntax: + + %hex[ %XX-encoded data to decode ]hex% + +For example, to insert the binary octets 0, 1 and 255 into the test file: + + %hex[ %00%01%FF ]hex% + # Variables When the test is preprocessed, a range of "variables" in the test file will be |