[X4U] Reading plist data

[Rick]

Hey John,

could you re-send your last email to me,
had a crash, with thunderbird, just switch over to SeaMonkey.

Thanks -
Richard



John Baltutis wrote:
> On 07/09/05, Rick Nagle <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> All in well, expect, I want to decode the <data> part
>> of this, to which I ask, what application would do this?
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstood your question. IIRC, you need a hex to string
> translator to read plist data arrays. Here's one, using Applescript, that
> you can run in the Script Editor-copy the data and insert it  into the
> first line:
> 
> set hex to "PASTE THE DATA YOU GET FROM THE PLIST INTO THIS BLOCK"
> set str to HexToString(hex)
> on HexToString(hex)
> 	do shell script "echo " & hex & " | perl
> -ple's/([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge' "
> end HexToString
> get str
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