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Reference for unit 'strutils' (#rtl)

XorDecode

Decode a string encoded with XorEncode

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 164

function XorDecode(

const Key: String;

const Source: String

):String;

Arguments

`Key`		Key to use when decoding.
`Source`		String to decode

Function result

Hexadecimal representation of the XOR-encoded string.

Description

XorDecode decodes Source and returns the original string that was encrypted using XorEncode with key Key. If a different key is used than the key used to encode the string, the result will be unreadable.

Errors

If the string Source is not a valid XorEncode result (e.g. contains non-numerical characters), then a EConversionError exception will be raised.