From 06e7facc846ed655c4b8d23b2b7cca919f371238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shubham Aggarwal <sbmaggarwal@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:29:14 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Added HexToAscii example.

---
 .../com/baeldung/hextToAscii/HexToAscii.java  | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hextToAscii/HexToAscii.java

diff --git a/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hextToAscii/HexToAscii.java b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hextToAscii/HexToAscii.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3e0dd431d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hextToAscii/HexToAscii.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package com.baeldung.hexToAscii;
+
+public class HexToAscii {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+        String demoString = "http://www.baeldung.com/jackson-serialize-dates";
+
+        System.out.println("Original statement: " + demoString);
+
+        String hexEquivalent = asciiToHex(demoString);
+        System.out.println("Hex equivalent: " + hexEquivalent);
+
+        String asciiEquivalent = hexToASCII(hexEquivalent);
+        System.out.println("Ascii equivalent: " + asciiEquivalent);
+    }
+
+    private static String asciiToHex(String asciiStr) {
+
+        char[] chars = asciiStr.toCharArray();
+        StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder();
+        for (char ch : chars) {
+            hex.append(Integer.toHexString((int) ch));
+        }
+
+        return hex.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static String hexToASCII(String hexStr) {
+
+        StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder("");
+        for (int i = 0; i < hexStr.length(); i += 2) {
+            String str = hexStr.substring(i, i + 2);
+            output.append((char) Integer.parseInt(str, 16));
+        }
+        return output.toString();
+    }
+}