from_hex_string

Transforms a string that consists of hexadecimal characters to its binary representation. The string should be of even length and should contain only hexadecimal characters in it. Every pair of characters form a single byte in a binary result.

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fields	type	description
data	string	Target data to transform. Should contain hexadecimal symbols only and be of even length.

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type	description
string	A binary representation of an input string

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message	description
input data size is more than 1000000 bytes	Limits input size up to 1 million bytes
input data couldn’t be transformed to binary	Input data contains invalid data to convert to a binary representation. It can be not of even length, contain inappropriate symbols.

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					local security = require("security")

local hash = security.sha256( 'Some human-readable string' )
local binary_hash = security.from_hex_string( hash )