Simplest method to get intel hex file into a string List ?

mala

title says it really..... how to easily take each line of a hex file and make it a string in a StringList ?

koogs

loadStrings() will get you each line of the input file as a string array

and there's a StringList constructor which takes an "Object ..." so you might be able to pass it in there.

jeremydouglass

Are you trying to load the raw ASCII lines, or are you trying to parse out the data contents of each line only, sans address, record type, checksum etc.?

koogs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX

includes the following example

:10010000214601360121470136007EFE09D2190140
:100110002146017E17C20001FF5F16002148011928
:10012000194E79234623965778239EDA3F01B2CAA7
:100130003F0156702B5E712B722B732146013421C7
:00000001FF

(i must admit i thought the OP meant the output from something like xxd)

mala

Thanks Guys, I'm re-writing a little bootloader application from delphi across to java/processing to make it crossplatform and hopefully easier to maintain. I only need the RAW ASCII lines into the array, so I can then fire them out the serial port to MCUs. loadStrings() into a string array seems to have done the job, no need for stringList, haven't done a test on actual MCU yet, but the data from the Hex file is coming in correct. Cheers, mala