Javascript \x Escaping

I've seen a few other programs that have something like this: var string = '\x32\x20\x60\x78\x6e\x7a\x9c\x89'; And I had to try to fiddle with the numbers and letters, to find the

Solution 1:

If you have a string that you want escaped, you can use String.prototype.charCodeAt()

If you have the code with escapes, you can just evaluate them to get the original string. If it's a string with literal escapes, you can use String.fromCharCode()

• If you have '\x32\x20\x60\x78\x6e\x7a\x9c\x89' and want "2 `xnz" then

  '\x32\x20\x60\x78\x6e\x7a\x9c\x89' == "2 `xnz"

• If you have '\\x32\\x20\\x60\\x78\\x6e\\x7a\\x9c\\x89' which is a literal string with the value \x32\x20\x60\x78\x6e\x7a\x9c\x89 then you can parse it by passing the decimal value of each pair of hex digits to String.prototype.fromCharCode()

  '\\x32\\x20\\x60\\x78\\x6e\\x7a\\x9c\\x89'.replace(/\\x([0-9a-f]{2})/ig, function(_, pair) {
      returnString.fromCharCode(parseInt(pair, 16));
    })
  

  Alternatively, eval is an option if you can be sure of the safety of the input and performance isn't important.

    eval('"\\x32\\x20\\x60\\x78\\x6e\\x7a\\x9c\\x89"')
  

  If you know it's a program, and it's from a trusted source, you can eval the string directly, which won't give you the ASCII, but will execute the program itself.

  eval('\\x32\\x20\\x60\\x78\\x6e\\x7a\\x9c\\x89')
  

• If you have "2 `xnz" and want '\x32\x20\x60\x78\x6e\x7a\x9c\x89' then

  "2 `xnz".split('').map(function(e) {
      return'\\x' + e.charCodeAt(0).toString(16);
    }).join('')