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Idiom #176 Hex string to byte array

From hex string s of 2n digits, build the equivalent array a of n bytes.
Each pair of hexadecimal characters (16 possible values per digit) is decoded into one byte (256 possible values).

byte[] a = new byte[s.Length/2];
for (int i = 0, h = 0; h < s.Length; i++, h += 2)
{
  a[i] = (byte) Int32.Parse(s.Substring(h, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
}
const char* hexstring = "deadbeef";
size_t length = sizeof(hexstring);
unsigned char bytearray[length / 2];

for (size_t i = 0, j = 0; i < (length / 2); i++, j += 2)
	bytearray[i] = (hexstring[j] % 32 + 9) % 25 * 16 + (hexstring[j+1] % 32 + 9) % 25;

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