Unicode::Peek - Perl module supports different unicode(s) transformation formats to hex and vice versa.
Version 0.01
The Unicode::Peek - Perl module provides to the user the ability to encode/ decode asccii strings in a variety of unicode transformations to hex and vice versa. The user is able to take a peek in the hex data and see the formatted output and also vise versa. The user can provided an array of data in a hex format and convert it back to ascii. Perl version 5.13.2 or greater is required.
use Unicode::Peek ( 'ascii2hexEncode', 'hex2ascciiDecode', 'hexDumperOutput', 'hexDumperInput' ); my $hexEncoded = ascii2hexEncode($unicodeFormat, $ascciiCharacters); ... my $ascciiCharacters = hex2ascciiDecode($unicodeFormat, $hexEncoded); ... my @hexFormattedOutput = hexDumperOutput($unicodeFormat, $ascciiCharacters); ... my $ascciiCharacters = hexDumperInput($unicodeFormat, \@hexFormattedOutput); ...
This module exports four methods (ascii2hexEncode, hex2ascciiDecode, hexDumperOutput and hexDumperInput). All methods support 14 different encoding and decoding formats. The module has been tested with multiple languages with complex characters, but not with all known languages in the planet. So far as many languages have been tested all characters where encoded / decoded correctly.
None by default, but the module can also export all methods by simple declaring all: use Unicode::Peek ':all';
UCS-2
UCS-2BE
UCS-2LE
UCS-4
UTF-7
utf8
utf8-strict
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-32
UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
This example is for femonstration purposes, randomly choosen Chinese as a testing language. We will use the L<Data::Dumper|https://perldoc.perl.org/Data/Dumper.html> module to print the formated hex output. Necessary is also the L<utf8|https://perldoc.perl.org/utf8.html> for the stdout (convert the internal representation of a Perl scalar to/from UTF-8.) #!/usr/bin/perl use utf8; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Unicode::Peek qw( hexDumperOutput ); my $lanquage = 'Chinese'; my $str = '這是一個測試'; my @flags = ( 'UCS-2', 'UCS-2BE', 'UCS-2LE', 'UCS-4', 'UTF-7', 'utf8', 'UTF-8', 'utf-8-strict', 'UTF-16', 'UTF-16BE', 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-32', 'UTF-32BE', 'UTF-32LE' ); while ( defined ( my $flag = shift @flags ) ) { print Dumper hexDumperOutput($flag, $str); };
#!/usr/bin/perl use utf8; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use feature 'say'; use Unicode::Peek qw( hexDumperOutput hexDumperInput ); my $lanquage = 'Chinese'; my $str = '這是一個測試'; my @flags = ( 'UCS-2', 'UCS-2BE', 'UCS-2LE', 'UCS-4', 'UTF-7', 'utf8', 'UTF-8', 'utf-8-strict', 'UTF-16', 'UTF-16BE', 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-32', 'UTF-32BE', 'UTF-32LE' ); while ( defined ( my $flag = shift @flags ) ) { my $hexDumper = hexDumperOutput($flag, $str); print Dumper $hexDumper; say hexDumperInput($flag, $hexDumper); };
#!/usr/bin/perl use utf8; use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use Unicode::Peek qw( hex2ascciiDecode ascii2hexEncode ); my $lanquage = 'Chinese'; my $str = '這是一個測試'; my @flags = ( 'UCS-2', 'UCS-2BE', 'UCS-2LE', 'UCS-4', 'UTF-7', 'utf8', 'UTF-8', 'utf-8-strict', 'UTF-16', 'UTF-16BE', 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-32', 'UTF-32BE', 'UTF-32LE' ); while ( defined ( my $flag = shift @flags ) ) { my $hexEncoded = ascii2hexEncode($flag, $str); say hex2ascciiDecode($flag, $hexEncoded); };
The module is implemented by using 'utf8' and 'Encode', both modules are mandatory as prerequisites and required to be pre-installed.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to C<bug-unicode-peek at rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Unicode-Peek>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
You can find documentation for the module with the perldoc command. perldoc Unicode::Peek
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$Log: Peek.pm,v $ Revision 0.01 2017/09/21 17:22:21 (UCT) Thanos
To install Unicode::Peek, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Unicode::Peek
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Unicode::Peek
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.