How do I convert an ASCII character to its decimal (or hexadecimal) value and back? How do I do URL encoding or URL decoding?

If you have a known octal or hexadecimal value (at script-writing time), you can just use printf:

   1 # POSIX
   2 printf '\047\n'
   3 
   4 # bash/ksh/zsh and a few other printf implementations also support:
   5 printf '\x27\n'

In locales where the character encoding is a superset of ASCII, this prints the literal ' character (47 is the octal ASCII value of the apostrophe character) and a newline. The hexadecimal version can also be used with a few printf implementations including the bash builtin, but is not standard/POSIX.

printf in bash 4.2 and higher, and in ksh93, supports Unicode code points as well:

   1 # bash 4.2, ksh93
   2 printf '\u0027\n'

Another approach: bash's $'...' quoting can be used to expand to the desired characters, either in a variable assignment, or directly as a command argument:

   1 ExpandedString=$'\x27\047\u0027\U00000027\n'
   2 printf %s\\n "$ExpandedString"
   3 
   4 # or, more simply
   5 printf %s\\n $'\x27\047\u0027\U00000027\n'

If you need to convert characters (or numeric ASCII values) that are not known in advance (i.e., in variables), you can use something a little more complicated. Note: These functions only work for single-byte character encodings.

   1 # POSIX
   2 # chr() - converts decimal value to its ASCII character representation
   3 # ord() - converts ASCII character to its decimal value
   4 
   5 chr() {
   6   [ "$1" -lt 256 ] || return 1
   7   printf "\\$(printf %o "$1")"
   8 }

Even better to avoid using a subshell is to pass the value inside a variable instead of the command output. faster as it avoids the subshell

   1 chr () {
   2   local val
   3   [ "$1" -lt 256 ] || return 1
   4   printf -v val %o "$1"; printf "\\$val"
   5   # That one requires bash 3.1 or above.
   6 }

   1 ord() {
   2   # POSIX
   3   LC_CTYPE=C printf %d "'$1"
   4 }
   5 
   6 # hex() - converts ASCII character to a hexadecimal value
   7 # unhex() - converts a hexadecimal value to an ASCII character
   8 
   9 hex() {
  10    LC_CTYPE=C printf %x "'$1"
  11 }
  12 
  13 unhex() {
  14    printf "\\x$1"
  15 }
  16 
  17 # examples:
  18 
  19 chr "$(ord A)"    # -> A
  20 ord "$(chr 65)"   # -> 65

The ord function above is quite tricky.

URL encoding and URL decoding

Note that URL encoding is defined only at the byte (octet) level. A URL-encoding of a multibyte (e.g. UTF-8) character is done by simply encoding each byte individually, then concatenating everything.

Also note that the urldecode function below performs no error checking; getting it to yield a sensible error message when you feed it malformed input is left as an exercise for the reader.

   1 urlencode() {
   2     # urlencode <string>
   3     local LC_ALL=C c i n
   4     for (( i = 0, n = ${#1}; i < n; i++ )); do
   5         c=${1:i:1}
   6         case $c in
   7             [[:alnum:].~_-]) printf %s "$c" ;;
   8             *) printf %%%02X "'$c"  ;;
   9         esac
  10     done
  11 }

   1 urldecode() {
   2     # urldecode <string>
   3     local s
   4     s=${1//\\/\\\\}
   5     s=${s//+/ }
   6     printf %b "${s//'%'/\\x}"
   7 }

   1 # Alternative urlencode, prints all at once (requires bash 3.1)
   2 urlencode() {
   3     # urlencode <string>
   4     local LC_ALL=C c i n=${#1}
   5     local out= tmp
   6     for (( i=0; i < n; i++ )); do
   7         c=${1:i:1}
   8         case $c in
   9             [[:alnum:].~_-]) printf -v tmp %s "$c" ;;
  10             *) printf -v tmp %%%02X "'$c"  ;;
  11         esac
  12         out+=$tmp
  13     done
  14     printf %s "$out"
  15 }

More complete examples (with UTF-8 support)

The command-line utility nkf can decode URLs:

   1 echo 'https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E8%89%AF%E7%8C%AB' | nkf --url-input

Note about Ext Ascii and UTF-8 encoding

   1   ###########################################################################
   2   ## ord family
   3   ###########################################################################
   4   # ord        <Return Variable Name> <Char to convert> [Optional Format String]
   5   # ord_hex    <Return Variable Name> <Char to convert>
   6   # ord_oct    <Return Variable Name> <Char to convert>
   7   # ord_utf8   <Return Variable Name> <Char to convert> [Optional Format String]
   8   # ord_eascii <Return Variable Name> <Char to convert> [Optional Format String]
   9   # ord_echo                      <Char to convert> [Optional Format String]
  10   # ord_hex_echo                  <Char to convert>
  11   # ord_oct_echo                  <Char to convert>
  12   # ord_utf8_echo                 <Char to convert> [Optional Format String]
  13   # ord_eascii_echo               <Char to convert> [Optional Format String]
  14   #
  15   # Description:
  16   # converts character using native encoding to its decimal value and stores
  17   # it in the Variable specified
  18   #
  19   #       ord
  20   #       ord_hex         output in hex
  21   #       ord_hex         output in octal
  22   #       ord_utf8        forces UTF8 decoding
  23   #       ord_eascii      forces eascii decoding
  24   #       ord_echo        prints to stdout
  25   function ord {
  26           printf -v "${1?Missing Dest Variable}" "${3:-%d}" "'${2?Missing Char}"
  27   }
  28   function ord_oct {
  29           ord "${@:1:2}" "0%c"
  30   }
  31   function ord_hex {
  32           ord "${@:1:2}" "0x%x"
  33   }
  34   function ord_utf8 {
  35           LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 ord "${@}"
  36   }
  37   function ord_eascii {
  38           LC_CTYPE=C ord "${@}"
  39   }
  40   function ord_echo {
  41           printf "${2:-%d}" "'${1?Missing Char}"
  42   }
  43   function ord_oct_echo {
  44           ord_echo "${1}" "0%o"
  45   }
  46   function ord_hex_echo {
  47           ord_echo "${1}" "0x%x"
  48   }
  49   function ord_utf8_echo {
  50           LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 ord_echo "${@}"
  51   }
  52   function ord_eascii_echo {
  53           LC_CTYPE=C ord_echo "${@}"
  54   }
  55 
  56   ###########################################################################
  57   ## chr family
  58   ###########################################################################
  59   # chr_utf8   <Return Variale Name> <Integer to convert>
  60   # chr_eascii <Return Variale Name> <Integer to convert>
  61   # chr        <Return Variale Name> <Integer to convert>
  62   # chr_oct    <Return Variale Name> <Octal number to convert>
  63   # chr_hex    <Return Variale Name> <Hex number to convert>
  64   # chr_utf8_echo                  <Integer to convert>
  65   # chr_eascii_echo                <Integer to convert>
  66   # chr_echo                       <Integer to convert>
  67   # chr_oct_echo                   <Octal number to convert>
  68   # chr_hex_echo                   <Hex number to convert>
  69   #
  70   # Description:
  71   # converts decimal value to character representation an stores
  72   # it in the Variable specified
  73   #
  74   #       chr                     Tries to guess output format
  75   #       chr_utf8                forces UTF8 encoding
  76   #       chr_eascii              forces eascii encoding
  77   #       chr_echo                prints to stdout
  78   #
  79   function chr_utf8_m {
  80     local val
  81     #
  82     # bash only supports \u \U since 4.2
  83     #
  84 
  85     # here is an example how to encode
  86     # manually
  87     # this will work since Bash 3.1 as it uses -v.
  88     #
  89     if [[ ${2:?Missing Ordinal Value} -le 0x7f ]]; then
  90       printf -v val "\\%03o" "${2}"
  91     elif [[ ${2} -le 0x7ff        ]]; then
  92       printf -v val "\\%03o" \
  93         $((  (${2}>> 6)      |0xc0 )) \
  94         $(( ( ${2}     &0x3f)|0x80 ))
  95     elif [[ ${2} -le 0xffff       ]]; then
  96       printf -v val "\\%03o" \
  97         $(( ( ${2}>>12)      |0xe0 )) \
  98         $(( ((${2}>> 6)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
  99         $(( ( ${2}     &0x3f)|0x80 ))
 100     elif [[ ${2} -le 0x1fffff     ]]; then
 101       printf -v val "\\%03o"  \
 102         $(( ( ${2}>>18)      |0xf0 )) \
 103         $(( ((${2}>>12)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 104         $(( ((${2}>> 6)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 105         $(( ( ${2}     &0x3f)|0x80 ))
 106     elif [[ ${2} -le 0x3ffffff    ]]; then
 107       printf -v val "\\%03o"  \
 108         $(( ( ${2}>>24)      |0xf8 )) \
 109         $(( ((${2}>>18)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 110         $(( ((${2}>>12)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 111         $(( ((${2}>> 6)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 112         $(( ( ${2}     &0x3f)|0x80 ))
 113     elif [[ ${2} -le 0x7fffffff ]]; then
 114       printf -v val "\\%03o"  \
 115         $(( ( ${2}>>30)      |0xfc )) \
 116         $(( ((${2}>>24)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 117         $(( ((${2}>>18)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 118         $(( ((${2}>>12)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 119         $(( ((${2}>> 6)&0x3f)|0x80 )) \
 120         $(( ( ${2}     &0x3f)|0x80 ))
 121     else
 122       printf -v "${1:?Missing Dest Variable}" ""
 123       return 1
 124     fi
 125     printf -v "${1:?Missing Dest Variable}" "${val}"
 126   }
 127   function chr_utf8 {
 128           local val
 129           [[ ${2?Missing Ordinal Value} -lt 0x80000000 ]] || return 1
 130 
 131           if [[ ${2} -lt 0x100 && ${2} -ge 0x80 ]]; then
 132 
 133                   # bash 4.2 incorrectly encodes
 134                   # \U000000ff as \xff so encode manually
 135                   printf -v val "\\%03o\%03o" $(( (${2}>>6)|0xc0 )) $(( (${2}&0x3f)|0x80 ))
 136           else
 137                   printf -v val '\\U%08x' "${2}"
 138           fi
 139           printf -v ${1?Missing Dest Variable} ${val}
 140   }
 141   function chr_eascii {
 142           local val
 143           # Make sure value less than 0x100
 144           # otherwise we end up with
 145           # \xVVNNNNN
 146           # where \xVV = char && NNNNN is a number string
 147           # so chr "0x44321" => "D321"
 148           [[ ${2?Missing Ordinal Value} -lt 0x100 ]] || return 1
 149           printf -v val '\\x%02x' "${2}"
 150           printf -v ${1?Missing Dest Variable} ${val}
 151   }
 152   function chr {
 153           if [ "${LC_CTYPE:-${LC_ALL:-}}" = "C" ]; then
 154                   chr_eascii "${@}"
 155           else
 156                   chr_utf8 "${@}"
 157           fi
 158   }
 159   function chr_dec {
 160           # strip leading 0s otherwise
 161           # interpreted as Octal
 162           chr "${1}" "${2#${2%%[!0]*}}"
 163   }
 164   function chr_oct {
 165           chr "${1}" "0${2}"
 166   }
 167   function chr_hex {
 168           chr "${1}" "0x${2#0x}"
 169   }
 170   function chr_utf8_echo {
 171           local val
 172           [[ ${1?Missing Ordinal Value} -lt 0x80000000 ]] || return 1
 173 
 174           if [[ ${1} -lt 0x100 && ${1} -ge 0x80 ]]; then
 175 
 176                   # bash 4.2 incorrectly encodes
 177                   # \U000000ff as \xff so encode manually
 178                   printf -v val '\\%03o\\%03o' $(( (${1}>>6)|0xc0 )) $(( (${1}&0x3f)|0x80 ))
 179           else
 180                   printf -v val '\\U%08x' "${1}"
 181           fi
 182           printf "${val}"
 183   }
 184   function chr_eascii_echo {
 185           local val
 186           # Make sure value less than 0x100
 187           # otherwise we end up with
 188           # \xVVNNNNN
 189           # where \xVV = char && NNNNN is a number string
 190           # so chr "0x44321" => "D321"
 191           [[ ${1?Missing Ordinal Value} -lt 0x100 ]] || return 1
 192           printf -v val '\\x%x' "${1}"
 193           printf "${val}"
 194   }
 195   function chr_echo {
 196           if [ "${LC_CTYPE:-${LC_ALL:-}}" = "C" ]; then
 197                   chr_eascii_echo "${@}"
 198           else
 199                   chr_utf8_echo "${@}"
 200           fi
 201   }
 202   function chr_dec_echo {
 203           # strip leading 0s otherwise
 204           # interpreted as Octal
 205           chr_echo "${1#${1%%[!0]*}}"
 206   }
 207   function chr_oct_echo {
 208           chr_echo "0${1}"
 209   }
 210   function chr_hex_echo {
 211           chr_echo "0x${1#0x}"
 212   }
 213 
 214   #
 215   # Simple Validation code
 216   #
 217   function test_echo_func {
 218     local Outcome _result
 219     _result="$( "${1}" "${2}" )"
 220     [ "${_result}" = "${3}" ] && Outcome="Pass" || Outcome="Fail"
 221     printf "# %-20s %-6s => "           "${1}" "${2}" "${_result}" "${3}"
 222     printf "[ "%16q" = "%-16q"%-5s ] "  "${_result}" "${3}" "(${3//[[:cntrl:]]/_})"
 223     printf "%s\n"                       "${Outcome}"
 224 
 225 
 226   }
 227   function test_value_func {
 228     local Outcome _result
 229     "${1}" _result "${2}"
 230     [ "${_result}" = "${3}" ] && Outcome="Pass" || Outcome="Fail"
 231     printf "# %-20s %-6s => "           "${1}" "${2}" "${_result}" "${3}"
 232     printf "[ "%16q" = "%-16q"%-5s ] "  "${_result}" "${3}" "(${3//[[:cntrl:]]/_})"
 233     printf "%s\n"                       "${Outcome}"
 234   }
 235   test_echo_func  chr_echo "$(ord_echo  "A")"  "A"
 236   test_echo_func  ord_echo "$(chr_echo "65")"  "65"
 237   test_echo_func  chr_echo "$(ord_echo  "ö")"  "ö"
 238   test_value_func chr      "$(ord_echo  "A")"  "A"
 239   test_value_func ord      "$(chr_echo "65")"  "65"
 240   test_value_func chr      "$(ord_echo  "ö")"  "ö"
 241   # chr_echo             65     => [                A = A               (A)   ] Pass
 242   # ord_echo             A      => [               65 = 65              (65)  ] Pass
 243   # chr_echo             246    => [      $'\303\266' = $'\303\266'     (ö)  ] Pass
 244   # chr                  65     => [                A = A               (A)   ] Pass
 245   # ord                  A      => [               65 = 65              (65)  ] Pass
 246   # chr                  246    => [      $'\303\266' = $'\303\266'     (ö)  ] Pass
 247   #
 248 
 249 
 250   test_echo_func  chr_echo     "65"     A
 251   test_echo_func  chr_echo     "065"    5
 252   test_echo_func  chr_dec_echo "065"    A
 253   test_echo_func  chr_oct_echo "65"     5
 254   test_echo_func  chr_hex_echo "65"     e
 255   test_value_func chr          "65"     A
 256   test_value_func chr          "065"    5
 257   test_value_func chr_dec      "065"    A
 258   test_value_func chr_oct      "65"     5
 259   test_value_func chr_hex      "65"     e
 260   # chr_echo             65     => [                A = A               (A)   ] Pass
 261   # chr_echo             065    => [                5 = 5               (5)   ] Pass
 262   # chr_dec_echo         065    => [                A = A               (A)   ] Pass
 263   # chr_oct_echo         65     => [                5 = 5               (5)   ] Pass
 264   # chr_hex_echo         65     => [                e = e               (e)   ] Pass
 265   # chr                  65     => [                A = A               (A)   ] Pass
 266   # chr                  065    => [                5 = 5               (5)   ] Pass
 267   # chr_dec              065    => [                A = A               (A)   ] Pass
 268   # chr_oct              65     => [                5 = 5               (5)   ] Pass
 269   # chr_hex              65     => [                e = e               (e)   ] Pass
 270 
 271   #test_value_func chr          0xff   $'\xff'
 272   test_value_func chr_eascii   0xff   $'\xff'
 273   test_value_func chr_utf8     0xff   $'\uff'      # Note this fails because bash encodes it incorrectly
 274   test_value_func chr_utf8     0xff   $'\303\277'
 275   test_value_func chr_utf8     0x100  $'\u100'
 276   test_value_func chr_utf8     0x1000 $'\u1000'
 277   test_value_func chr_utf8     0xffff $'\uffff'
 278   # chr_eascii           0xff   => [          $'\377' = $'\377'         (�)   ] Pass
 279   # chr_utf8             0xff   => [      $'\303\277' = $'\377'         (�)   ] Fail
 280   # chr_utf8             0xff   => [      $'\303\277' = $'\303\277'     (ÿ)  ] Pass
 281   # chr_utf8             0x100  => [      $'\304\200' = $'\304\200'     (Ä€)  ] Pass
 282   # chr_utf8             0x1000 => [  $'\341\200\200' = $'\341\200\200' (က) ] Pass
 283   # chr_utf8             0xffff => [  $'\357\277\277' = $'\357\277\277' (���) ] Pass
 284   test_value_func ord_utf8     "A"           65
 285   test_value_func ord_utf8     "ä"          228
 286   test_value_func ord_utf8     $'\303\277'  255
 287   test_value_func ord_utf8     $'\u100'     256
 288 
 289 
 290 
 291   #########################################################
 292   # to help debug problems try this
 293   #########################################################
 294   printf "%q\n" $'\xff'                  # => $'\377'
 295   printf "%q\n" $'\uffff'                # => $'\357\277\277'
 296   printf "%q\n" "$(chr_utf8_echo 0x100)" # => $'\304\200'
 297   #
 298   # This can help a lot when it comes to diagnosing problems
 299   # with read and or xterm program output
 300   # I use it a lot in error case to create a human readable error message
 301   # i.e.
 302   echo "Enter type to test, Enter to continue"
 303   while read -srN1 ; do
 304     ord asciiValue "${REPLY}"
 305     case "${asciiValue}" in
 306       10) echo "Goodbye" ; break ;;
 307       20|21|22) echo "Yay expected input" ;;
 308       *) printf ':( Unexpected Input 0x%02x %q "%s"\n' "${asciiValue}" "${REPLY}" "${REPLY//[[:cntrl:]]}" ;;
 309     esac
 310   done
 311 
 312   #########################################################
 313   # More exotic approach 1
 314   #########################################################
 315   # I used to use this before I figured out the LC_CTYPE=C approach
 316   # printf "EAsciiLookup=%q" "$(for (( x=0x0; x<0x100 ; x++)); do printf '%b' $(printf '\\x%02x' "$x"); done)"
 317   EAsciiLookup=$'\001\002\003\004\005\006\a\b\t\n\v\f\r\016\017\020\021\022\023'
 318   EAsciiLookup+=$'\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\E\034\035\036\037 !"#$%&\'()*+,-'
 319   EAsciiLookup+=$'./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghi'
 320   EAsciiLookup+=$'jklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~\177\200\201\202\203\204\205\206\207\210'
 321   EAsciiLookup+=$'\211\212\213\214\215\216\217\220\221\222\223\224\225\226\227'
 322   EAsciiLookup+=$'\230\231\232\233\234\235\236\237\240\241\242\243\244\245\246'
 323   EAsciiLookup+=$'\247\250\251\252\253\254\255\256\257\260\261\262\263\264\265'
 324   EAsciiLookup+=$'\266\267\270\271\272\273\274\275\276\277\300\301\302\303\304'
 325   EAsciiLookup+=$'\305\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\321\322\323'
 326   EAsciiLookup+=$'\324\325\326\327\330\331\332\333\334\335\336\337\340\341\342'
 327   EAsciiLookup+=$'\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\360\361'
 328   EAsciiLookup+=$'\362\363\364\365\366\367\370\371\372\373\374\375\376\377'
 329   function ord_eascii2 {
 330     local idx="${EAsciiLookup%%${2:0:1}*}"
 331     eval ${1}'=$(( ${#idx} +1 ))'
 332   }
 333 
 334   #########################################################
 335   # More exotic approach 2
 336   #########################################################
 337   #printf "EAsciiLookup2=(\n    %s\n)" "$(for (( x=0x1; x<0x100 ; x++)); do printf '%-18s'  "$(printf '[_%q]="0x%02x"' "$(printf "%b" "$(printf '\\x%02x' "$x")")" $x )" ; [ "$(($x%6))" != "0" ] || echo -en "\n    " ; done)"
 338   typeset -A EAsciiLookup2
 339   EAsciiLookup2=(
 340     [_$'\001']="0x01" [_$'\002']="0x02" [_$'\003']="0x03" [_$'\004']="0x04"
 341     [_$'\005']="0x05" [_$'\006']="0x06" [_$'\a']="0x07"   [_$'\b']="0x08"
 342     [_$'\t']="0x09"   [_'']="0x0a"      [_$'\v']="0x0b"   [_$'\f']="0x0c"
 343     [_$'\r']="0x0d"   [_$'\016']="0x0e" [_$'\017']="0x0f" [_$'\020']="0x10"
 344     [_$'\021']="0x11" [_$'\022']="0x12" [_$'\023']="0x13" [_$'\024']="0x14"
 345     [_$'\025']="0x15" [_$'\026']="0x16" [_$'\027']="0x17" [_$'\030']="0x18"
 346     [_$'\031']="0x19" [_$'\032']="0x1a" [_$'\E']="0x1b"   [_$'\034']="0x1c"
 347     [_$'\035']="0x1d" [_$'\036']="0x1e" [_$'\037']="0x1f" [_\ ]="0x20"
 348     [_\!]="0x21"      [_\"]="0x22"      [_\#]="0x23"      [_\$]="0x24"
 349     [_%]="0x25"       [_\&]="0x26"      [_\']="0x27"      [_\(]="0x28"
 350     [_\)]="0x29"      [_\*]="0x2a"      [_+]="0x2b"       [_\,]="0x2c"
 351     [_-]="0x2d"       [_.]="0x2e"       [_/]="0x2f"       [_0]="0x30"
 352     [_1]="0x31"       [_2]="0x32"       [_3]="0x33"       [_4]="0x34"
 353     [_5]="0x35"       [_6]="0x36"       [_7]="0x37"       [_8]="0x38"
 354     [_9]="0x39"       [_:]="0x3a"       [_\;]="0x3b"      [_\<]="0x3c"
 355     [_=]="0x3d"       [_\>]="0x3e"      [_\?]="0x3f"      [_@]="0x40"
 356     [_A]="0x41"       [_B]="0x42"       [_C]="0x43"       [_D]="0x44"
 357     [_E]="0x45"       [_F]="0x46"       [_G]="0x47"       [_H]="0x48"
 358     [_I]="0x49"       [_J]="0x4a"       [_K]="0x4b"       [_L]="0x4c"
 359     [_M]="0x4d"       [_N]="0x4e"       [_O]="0x4f"       [_P]="0x50"
 360     [_Q]="0x51"       [_R]="0x52"       [_S]="0x53"       [_T]="0x54"
 361     [_U]="0x55"       [_V]="0x56"       [_W]="0x57"       [_X]="0x58"
 362     [_Y]="0x59"       [_Z]="0x5a"       [_\[]="0x5b"      #[_\\]="0x5c"
 363     #[_\]]="0x5d"
 364                       [_\^]="0x5e"      [__]="0x5f"       [_\`]="0x60"
 365     [_a]="0x61"       [_b]="0x62"       [_c]="0x63"       [_d]="0x64"
 366     [_e]="0x65"       [_f]="0x66"       [_g]="0x67"       [_h]="0x68"
 367     [_i]="0x69"       [_j]="0x6a"       [_k]="0x6b"       [_l]="0x6c"
 368     [_m]="0x6d"       [_n]="0x6e"       [_o]="0x6f"       [_p]="0x70"
 369     [_q]="0x71"       [_r]="0x72"       [_s]="0x73"       [_t]="0x74"
 370     [_u]="0x75"       [_v]="0x76"       [_w]="0x77"       [_x]="0x78"
 371     [_y]="0x79"       [_z]="0x7a"       [_\{]="0x7b"      [_\|]="0x7c"
 372     [_\}]="0x7d"      [_~]="0x7e"       [_$'\177']="0x7f" [_$'\200']="0x80"
 373     [_$'\201']="0x81" [_$'\202']="0x82" [_$'\203']="0x83" [_$'\204']="0x84"
 374     [_$'\205']="0x85" [_$'\206']="0x86" [_$'\207']="0x87" [_$'\210']="0x88"
 375     [_$'\211']="0x89" [_$'\212']="0x8a" [_$'\213']="0x8b" [_$'\214']="0x8c"
 376     [_$'\215']="0x8d" [_$'\216']="0x8e" [_$'\217']="0x8f" [_$'\220']="0x90"
 377     [_$'\221']="0x91" [_$'\222']="0x92" [_$'\223']="0x93" [_$'\224']="0x94"
 378     [_$'\225']="0x95" [_$'\226']="0x96" [_$'\227']="0x97" [_$'\230']="0x98"
 379     [_$'\231']="0x99" [_$'\232']="0x9a" [_$'\233']="0x9b" [_$'\234']="0x9c"
 380     [_$'\235']="0x9d" [_$'\236']="0x9e" [_$'\237']="0x9f" [_$'\240']="0xa0"
 381     [_$'\241']="0xa1" [_$'\242']="0xa2" [_$'\243']="0xa3" [_$'\244']="0xa4"
 382     [_$'\245']="0xa5" [_$'\246']="0xa6" [_$'\247']="0xa7" [_$'\250']="0xa8"
 383     [_$'\251']="0xa9" [_$'\252']="0xaa" [_$'\253']="0xab" [_$'\254']="0xac"
 384     [_$'\255']="0xad" [_$'\256']="0xae" [_$'\257']="0xaf" [_$'\260']="0xb0"
 385     [_$'\261']="0xb1" [_$'\262']="0xb2" [_$'\263']="0xb3" [_$'\264']="0xb4"
 386     [_$'\265']="0xb5" [_$'\266']="0xb6" [_$'\267']="0xb7" [_$'\270']="0xb8"
 387     [_$'\271']="0xb9" [_$'\272']="0xba" [_$'\273']="0xbb" [_$'\274']="0xbc"
 388     [_$'\275']="0xbd" [_$'\276']="0xbe" [_$'\277']="0xbf" [_$'\300']="0xc0"
 389     [_$'\301']="0xc1" [_$'\302']="0xc2" [_$'\303']="0xc3" [_$'\304']="0xc4"
 390     [_$'\305']="0xc5" [_$'\306']="0xc6" [_$'\307']="0xc7" [_$'\310']="0xc8"
 391     [_$'\311']="0xc9" [_$'\312']="0xca" [_$'\313']="0xcb" [_$'\314']="0xcc"
 392     [_$'\315']="0xcd" [_$'\316']="0xce" [_$'\317']="0xcf" [_$'\320']="0xd0"
 393     [_$'\321']="0xd1" [_$'\322']="0xd2" [_$'\323']="0xd3" [_$'\324']="0xd4"
 394     [_$'\325']="0xd5" [_$'\326']="0xd6" [_$'\327']="0xd7" [_$'\330']="0xd8"
 395     [_$'\331']="0xd9" [_$'\332']="0xda" [_$'\333']="0xdb" [_$'\334']="0xdc"
 396     [_$'\335']="0xdd" [_$'\336']="0xde" [_$'\337']="0xdf" [_$'\340']="0xe0"
 397     [_$'\341']="0xe1" [_$'\342']="0xe2" [_$'\343']="0xe3" [_$'\344']="0xe4"
 398     [_$'\345']="0xe5" [_$'\346']="0xe6" [_$'\347']="0xe7" [_$'\350']="0xe8"
 399     [_$'\351']="0xe9" [_$'\352']="0xea" [_$'\353']="0xeb" [_$'\354']="0xec"
 400     [_$'\355']="0xed" [_$'\356']="0xee" [_$'\357']="0xef" [_$'\360']="0xf0"
 401     [_$'\361']="0xf1" [_$'\362']="0xf2" [_$'\363']="0xf3" [_$'\364']="0xf4"
 402     [_$'\365']="0xf5" [_$'\366']="0xf6" [_$'\367']="0xf7" [_$'\370']="0xf8"
 403     [_$'\371']="0xf9" [_$'\372']="0xfa" [_$'\373']="0xfb" [_$'\374']="0xfc"
 404     [_$'\375']="0xfd" [_$'\376']="0xfe" [_$'\377']="0xff"
 405   )
 406   function ord_eascii3 {
 407         local -i val="${EAsciiLookup2["_${2:0:1}"]-}"
 408         if [ "${val}" -eq 0 ]; then
 409                 case "${2:0:1}" in
 410                         ])  val=0x5d ;;
 411                         \\) val=0x5c ;;
 412                 esac
 413         fi
 414         eval "${1}"'="${val}"'
 415   }
 416   # for fun check out the following
 417   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord TmpVar 'a'; done
 418   #  real 0m0.065s
 419   #  user 0m0.048s
 420   #  sys  0m0.000s
 421 
 422   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_eascii TmpVar 'a'; done
 423   #  real 0m0.239s
 424   #  user 0m0.188s
 425   #  sys  0m0.000s
 426 
 427   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_utf8 TmpVar 'a'; done
 428   #  real       0m0.225s
 429   #  user       0m0.180s
 430   #  sys        0m0.000s
 431 
 432   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_eascii2 TmpVar 'a'; done
 433   #  real 0m1.507s
 434   #  user 0m1.056s
 435   #  sys  0m0.012s
 436 
 437   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_eascii3 TmpVar 'a'; done
 438   #  real 0m0.147s
 439   #  user 0m0.120s
 440   #  sys  0m0.000s
 441 
 442   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_echo 'a' >/dev/null ; done
 443   #  real       0m0.065s
 444   #  user       0m0.044s
 445   #  sys        0m0.016s
 446 
 447   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_eascii_echo 'a' >/dev/null ; done
 448   #  real       0m0.089s
 449   #  user       0m0.068s
 450   #  sys        0m0.008s
 451 
 452   time for (( i=0 ; i <1000; i++ )); do ord_utf8_echo 'a' >/dev/null ; done
 453   #  real       0m0.226s
 454   #  user       0m0.172s
 455   #  sys        0m0.012s

BashFAQ/071 (last edited 2021-02-08 16:03:51 by GreyCat)