From 74b768f77c614ea6f53409da0822c7c5b5ead1af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Martignoni <nicolas@martignoni.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:18:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Function convert_hex_string() added. Issue #32.

---
 classes/local/utils.php | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/classes/local/utils.php b/classes/local/utils.php
index b8ddb00..d36ba83 100644
--- a/classes/local/utils.php
+++ b/classes/local/utils.php
@@ -152,4 +152,17 @@ public static function get_wireless_interface_name() {
         return explode('/', array_keys(iterator_to_array($iter))[0])[4];
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Convert string with hexadecimal code to unicode string.
+     * See https://stackoverflow.com/a/12083180.
+     *
+     * @param string $string to convert
+     * @return string converted
+     */
+    public static function convert_hex_string($string) {
+    return preg_replace_callback('#\\\\x([[:xdigit:]]{2})#ism', function($matches) {
+        return chr(hexdec($matches[1]));
+    }, $string);
+}
+
 }