Problem converting GUID strings to hexadecimal in C [DUVIDA]
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Problem converting GUID strings to hexadecimal in C [DUVIDA]
I am facing difficulties in implementing a function in C to convert GUID strings into hexadecimal representations. The function I am using is the following:
First remove every syntactical character ({-}) then check the length (32) and the characters one-by-one (0-9a-fA-F), and finally do the conversion, the output should be `uint8_t[16]` or similar.
I really would have expected the placement of the hyphen delimiters to match the layout/size of the members of the GUID struct, but apparently not. Microsoft are weird!
I don't understand why you are splitting up and then combining bytes like that, but it looks like you skipped byte1 and are using byte7, byte9, byte10, byte11, and byte8 twice.
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