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netstring decoder

world's simplest string tool

Free online netstring to string converter. Just load your netstring and it will automatically get decoded to a regular string. Load a netstring – get a string. There are no intrusive ads, popups or nonsense, just an awesome netstring decoder. Created for developers by developers from team Browserling.

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Tool Options

Decoding Options

Recursively decode a netstring
that has been double-encoded.
Add a space character after
each netstring.

Whitespace Options

Replace "↵" symbols with real newlines.
Replace "⎵" symbols with real spaces.
Replace "⇥" symbols with real tabs.

What is a netstring decoder?

This browser-based utility decodes netstrings. It can parse both netstring formats – length-prefixed netstrings and angle bracket-wrapped hexadecimal netstrings. If the input has a length-prefixed format, it removes the byte length prefix, the colon symbol, and the trailing comma, and returns the encapsulated data. If the inputs have a hex format, then it removes the angle brackets, converts hex bytes to a byte stream, interprets it as UTF8-encoded data and returns the encapsulated Unicode string. If the input data contains multiple netstrings, they can be decoded and merged together in the output or they can be separated by space characters. The "Separate Words with Spaces" option controls this behavior. If the input netstring has been recursively encoded and has double protection, then it can be decoded twice by enabling the "Double Decode" option. You can also unbeautify special characters "↵" (newline), "⎵" (space), and "⇥" (tab). Stringabulous!

Netstring decoder examples

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Decode Five Words

This example decodes a netstring-encoded John Lennon quote. The quote contains five words that have been encoded word-by-word. To do the conversion from a netstring to a string, it removes the byte lengths and colons before the words and commas after the words. It separates the words with a space character and prints a clean, well-formatted sentence.

3:All,3:you,4:need,2:is,5:love.,
All you need is love.
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Recursively decode a netstring
that has been double-encoded.
Add a space character after
each netstring.
Replace "↵" symbols with real newlines.
Replace "⎵" symbols with real spaces.
Replace "⇥" symbols with real tabs.
Orders of Magnitude of Time

In this example, the input contains eight netstrings that have the hexadecimal form. Each netstring is on its own line and the lines are decoded one-by-one. It's easy to recognize the input format as each line starts and ends with an angle bracket. To find the contents, the bytes are converted to characters using a UTF8 decoder. It turns out that the list contains time units.

<37 3a 63 65 6e 74 75 72 79 2c> <34 3a 79 65 61 72 2c> <35 3a 6d 6f 6e 74 68 2c> <34 3a 77 65 65 6b 2c> <33 3a 64 61 79 2c> <34 3a 68 6f 75 72 2c> <36 3a 6d 69 6e 75 74 65 2c> <36 3a 73 65 63 6f 6e 64 2c>
century year month week day hour minute second
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Recursively decode a netstring
that has been double-encoded.
Add a space character after
each netstring.
Replace "↵" symbols with real newlines.
Replace "⎵" symbols with real spaces.
Replace "⇥" symbols with real tabs.
The Largest Deserts

This example loads a recursive netstring that contains beautified whitespace characters. To break the recursion, we use the double-decode option, which performs the decoding process twice. We also activate options to convert Unicode whitespaces to regular whitespaces. These options print a physical line break instead of the "↵" symbol, a physical tab instead of the "⇥" symbol, and a physical space instead of the "⎵" symbol.

174:169:Desert⇥⇥Area⎵(km²)↵Antarctic⇥14,200,000↵Arctic⇥⇥13,900,000↵Sahara⇥⇥9,100,000↵Arabian⇥⇥2,600,000↵Gobi⇥⇥1,300,000↵Patagonian⇥670,000,,
Desert Area (km²) Antarctic 14,200,000 Arctic 13,900,000 Sahara 9,100,000 Arabian 2,600,000 Gobi 1,300,000 Patagonian 670,000
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Recursively decode a netstring
that has been double-encoded.
Add a space character after
each netstring.
Replace "↵" symbols with real newlines.
Replace "⎵" symbols with real spaces.
Replace "⇥" symbols with real tabs.

Pro tips Master online string tools

You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!

https://onlinestringtools.com/convert-netstring-to-string?input=3%3AAll%2C3%3Ayou%2C4%3Aneed%2C2%3Ais%2C5%3Alove.%2C&double-decode=false&space-separate=true&unbeautify-newlines=false&unbeautify-spaces=false&unbeautify-tabs=false

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Repeat a String

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Find and Replace a String

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Truncate a String

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Trim a String

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Left-pad a String

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Right-pad a String

Quickly pad a string on the right side.

Right-align a String

Quickly align a string to the right.

Center a String

Quickly center a string.

Sort Strings

Quickly sort a list of strings in alphabetical, alphanumerical or numerical order.

Rotate a String

Quickly rotate a string to the left or to the right.

ROT13 a String

Quickly convert a string to ROT13.

ROT47 a String

Quickly convert a string to ROT47.

Transpose a String

Quickly transpose a string.

Slice a String

Quickly fetch a part of a string.

Add a Prefix to a String

Quickly add a prefix to a string.

Add a Suffix to a String

Quickly add a suffix to a string.

Quote a String

Quickly add a pair of quotes around a string.

Unquote a String

Quickly remove quotes around a string.

Convert Spaces to Newlines

Quickly convert spaces to newlines in a string.

Convert Newlines to Spaces

Quickly convert newlines to spaces in a string.

Convert Spaces to Tabs

Quickly convert spaces to tabs in a string.

Convert Tabs to Spaces

Quickly convert tabs to spaces in a string.

Remove All Empty Lines

Quickly remove empty lines from a string.

Remove All Whitespace

Quickly remove spaces, tabs, and newlines from a string.

Remove All Punctuation

Quickly remove dots, commas, and other marks from a string.

Find the Length of a String

Quickly calculate a string's length.

Count Newlines in a String

Quickly calculate the number of newlines in a string.

Convert a String to Bytes

Quickly convert a string to a sequence of bytes.

Convert Bytes to a String

Quickly convert a sequence of bytes to a string.

Convert a String to Binary

Quickly convert a string to a binary string.

Convert Binary to a String

Quickly convert a binary string to a string.

Convert a String to Octal

Quickly convert a string to an octal string.

Convert Octal to a String

Quickly convert an octal string to a string.

Convert a String to Decimal

Quickly convert a string to a decimal string.

Convert Decimal to a String

Quickly convert a decimal string to a string.

Convert a String to Hex

Quickly convert a string to a hexadecimal string.

Convert Hex to a String

Quickly convert a hexadecimal string to a string.

Convert a String to ASCII

Quickly convert a string to ASCII codes.

Convert ASCII to a String

Quickly convert ASCII codes to a string.

Change String Case

Quickly change the case of characters in a string.

Convert a String to Uppercase

Quickly convert a string to uppercase.

Convert a String to Lowercase

Quickly convert a string to lowercase.

Randomize Letter Case in a String

Quickly randomize the case of each letter in a string.

Invert Letter Case in a String

Quickly invert string's case.

Convert JSON to a String

Quickly extract string data from a JSON data structure.

JSON Stringify a String

Quickly convert a string to a JSON string.

JSON Parse a String

Quickly convert a JSON stringified string to a regular string.

Convert HTML to a String

Quickly extract all string data from a HTML page.

Convert XML to a String

Quickly extract all string data from an XML document.

Convert CSV to a String

Quickly convert a CSV file to evenly aligned columns of space-separated strings.

Convert a String to CSV

Quickly convert strings to a proper CSV file.

Convert BBCode to a String

Quickly extract all string data from a BBCode markup.

Convert a String to Morse Code

Quickly convert a string to Morse code.

Convert Morse Code to a String

Quickly convert Morse code to a string.

Create a Palindrome

Quickly create a palindrome from a string.

Check a Palindrome

Quickly check if a string is a palindrome.

Generate String Unigrams

Quickly generate all monograms of a string.

Generate String Bigrams

Quickly generate all digrams of a string.

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View and Edit Strings

Quickly edit a string in a browser-based editor.

Replace Multiple Strings

Replace a set of strings with a new set of strings.

Title-case a String

Convert a string to a title.

Proper-case a String

Convert a string to proper case.

Capitalize Words in a String

Convert the first letter of every word in a string to uppercase.

Justify a String

Stretch out a string and align it along the left and right margins.

Left-align a String

Align a string to the left.

Format a Multi-line String

Format and align a multi-line string.

Number of Letters in a String

Find how many letters there are in a string.

Number of Words in a String

Find how many words there are in a string.

Number of Lines in a String

Find how many lines there are in a multi-line string.

Number of Paragraphs in a String

Find how many paragraphs there are in a multi-line string.

Sort Letters in a String

Sort all letters in a string alphabetically.

Sort Words in a String

Sort all words in a string alphabetically.

Sort a Numeric String

Sort a string that contains only numbers.

Reverse Words in a String

Reverse the order of all words in a string.

Reverse Sentences in a String

Reverse the order of all sentences in a string.

String Frequency Analysis

Find most frequent letters, words and phrases in a string.

Generate a Custom String

Create a string with specific properties.

Create String Mnemonic

Generate a mnemonic for words in a string.

Create an Anagram from a String

Rearrange letters in a string and create a new string.

Number a Multi-line String

Add line numbers to a multi-line string.

Wrap a String

Wrap strings to the given line length.

Chunkify a String

Split a string into chunks of certain length.

Divide a String into Syllables

Find syllables in a string.

Shuffle Words in a String

Shuffle the order of all words in a string.

Extract Emails from a String

Find and extract all email addresses from a string.

Extract URLs from a String

Find and extract all web addresses from a string.

Zigzagify a String

Make a string go in zigzags.

Circlify a String

Make a string go in a circle.

Squarify a String

Make a string go in a square or a rectangle.

Spiralify a String

Make a string go in a spiral.

Blockify a String

Fit a string in an N-by-M block.

Extract Numbers from a String

Find and extract all numbers from a string.

Calculate String Statistics

Analyze a string's complexity, including entropy.

ROT18 a String

Quickly convert a string to ROT18.

Convert a String to Punycode

Encode a string to punycode.

Convert Punycode to a String

Decode a string from punycode.

QP-encode a String

Convert a string to quoted-printable encoding.

QP-decode a String

Convert quoted-printable encoded data to a string.

Base32-encode a String

Encode a string to base32.

Base32-decode a String

Decode a string from base32.

Base45-encode a String

Encode a string to base45.

Base45-decode a String

Decode a string from base45.

Base58-encode a String

Encode a string to base58.

Base58-decode a String

Decode a string from base58.

Base85-encode a String

Encode a string to Ascii85.

Base85-decode a String

Decode a string from Ascii85.

UTF8-encode a String

Encode a string to UTF8.

UTF8-decode a String

Decode a string from UTF8.

UTF16-encode a String

Encode a string to UTF16.

UTF16-decode a String

Decode a string from UTF16.

UTF32-encode a String

Encode a string to UTF32.

UTF32-decode a String

Decode a string from UTF32.

IDN-encode a String

Encode a string to IDN.

IDN-decode a String

Decode a string from IDN encoding.

Uuencode a String

Convert a string to Unix-to-Unix encoding.

Uudecode a String

Convert Unix-to-Unix data to a string.

Xxencode a String

Convert a string to Xxencoding.

Xxdecode a String

Convert an Xxencoded string to a regular string.

HTML-strip a String

Strip all HTML tags from a string.

Remove Accent Characters

Remove all diacritical signs from a string.

Add Accent Characters

Randomly add accent characters to letters in a string.

Delete String Symbols

Remove punctuation marks and other symbols from a string.

Delete String Characters

Remove characters from a string.

Delete String Vowels

Remove vowels from a string.

Delete String Consonants

Remove consonants from a string.

Add Duplicate Spaces

Duplicate spaces in a string so one space becomes two.

Remove Duplicate Spaces

Normalize string spacing and remove all duplicate spaces.

Diff Two Strings

Visualy compare and find differences between two strings.

String Levenshtein Distance

Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings.

String Hamming Distance

Calculate Hamming distance between two strings.

Find LCS of Two Strings

Find the longest common subsequence of two strings.

Rewrite a String

A tiny string rewriting system.

Reduce String Alphabet

Limit the alphabet letters that are used in a string.

Generate a Zalgo String

Convert a string to Unicode mess.

Make a Zalgo String Readable

Remove Unicode mess from a string.

Generate String Typos

Create a list of all possible string typos.

Mirror a String

Generate a mirror copy of a string.

Generate Trigrams

Generate all 3-grams of a string.

Generate all N-grams

Generate all ngrams of a string.

Generate N-skip-M-grams

Generate n-skip-m-grams of a string.

Tokenize a String

Create a list of tokens from a string.

Lemmatize a String

Lemmatize all words in a string.

Stem a String

Do stemming of all words in a string.

Grep a String

Extract fragments that match a regular expression in a string.

Head a String

Split a string into fragments and extract the beginning parts.

Tail a String

Split a string into fragments and extract the ending parts.

Convert a String to Hyperstring

Create a hyperstring from a string.

Convert Hyperstring to a String

Create a regular string from a hyperstring.

Convert a String to an Array

Create an array of characters from a string.

Convert a String to Integers

Split a string into characters and return their integer values.

Replace Letters with Digits

Put digits in place of characters in a string.

Fix String Quoting

Correct misquoted strings (add/remove missing quotes).

Shift a String

Shift characters in a string to the left or right.

Color a String

Create a colorful string.

Slugify a String

Create a SEO-friendly URL from a string.

Create Mistakes in a String

Substitute random characters in a string and make errors.

Find Mistakes in a String

Run a spell checker and find mistakes in a string.

Mix Two Strings

Interleave two strings character by character.

Repeat String Characters

Duplicate characters in a string multiple times.

Generate LCD String

Draw a string on an LCD screen.

Generate a Short String

Create a string that doesn't have too many characters.

Generate a Long String

Create a string that has many characters.

Create a String of Certain Length

Generate a string with a certain amount of characters.

Generate Twin Strings

Create two strings that have the twin property.

Generate Triplet Strings

Create three strings that have the triplet property.

Create a String Cloud

Generate a word cloud from all words in a string.

Partition a String

Split a string into multiple substrings.

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