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Hex Dump Viewer

View text or a file as a classic hex dump: offsets, hex bytes and the printable ASCII gutter.

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Reading a hex dump

Each line shows the byte offset, then the bytes in hexadecimal, then the same bytes as printable ASCII with a dot standing in for anything unprintable. It is the layout hexdump -C and xxd produce.

It is the fastest way to see what is actually in a payload: a byte-order mark, CRLF line endings, trailing null bytes, or the file signature that tells you what a file really is regardless of its extension.

Frequently asked questions

What do the dots in the right column mean?

Bytes outside the printable ASCII range 0x20–0x7E. That includes newlines, control characters and every byte of multi-byte UTF-8 sequences.

How do I spot a byte-order mark?

EF BB BF at offset 0 is a UTF-8 BOM. It is invisible in a text editor but breaks JSON parsers and CSV imports.

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