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HEX File Viewer

HEX File Viewer

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View various files as a HEX bytes dump.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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HEX File Viewer

This extension lets you see raw hexadecimal bytes data of any file! Choose Open in HEX view in the right-click menu of a file in the tree view.
The bytes are currently only decoded in ASCII.

Example - viewing this extension's icon file (first 18 lines of output):

0000000000000000  89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A | .PNG....
0000000000000008  00 00 00 0D 49 48 44 52 | ....IHDR
0000000000000010  00 00 01 3F 00 00 01 3F | ...?...?
0000000000000018  08 06 00 00 00 30 A6 C4 | .....0..
0000000000000020  AB 00 00 00 01 73 52 47 | .....sRG
0000000000000028  42 00 AE CE 1C E9 00 00 | B.......
0000000000000030  00 04 67 41 4D 41 00 00 | ..gAMA..
0000000000000038  B1 8F 0B FC 61 05 00 00 | ....a...
0000000000000040  00 09 70 48 59 73 00 00 | ..pHYs..
0000000000000048  0E BF 00 00 0E BF 01 38 | .......8
0000000000000050  05 53 24 00 00 01 87 69 | .S$....i
0000000000000058  54 58 74 58 4D 4C 3A 63 | TXtXML:c
0000000000000060  6F 6D 2E 61 64 6F 62 65 | om.adobe
0000000000000068  2E 78 6D 70 00 00 00 00 | .xmp....
0000000000000070  00 3C 3F 78 70 61 63 6B | .<?xpack
0000000000000078  65 74 20 62 65 67 69 6E | et begin
0000000000000080  3D 27 EF BB BF 27 20 69 | ='...' i
0000000000000088  64 3D 27 57 35 4D 30 4D | d='W5M0M

Configuration (the config values specified are defaults):

{
    "hexFileViewer.groupSize": 8,     // Number of bytes per group (line)
    "hexFileViewer.addressWidth": 8,  // Width of the address column in bytes
}
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