Netstring creator
World's simplest string toolFree online string to netstring creator. Just load your string and it will automatically get converted to a netstring. Load a string – get a netstring. There are no intrusive ads, popups or nonsense, just an awesome netstring encoder. Created for developers by developers from team Browserling.
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What is a netstring creator?
learn more about this toolThis browser-based tool constructs a netstring from a regular string. A netstring is a safe and reliable encoding method for transmitting regular strings as byte streams over networks or for serialization. It counts the number of 8-bit units in the string and stores this number in front of the string for easy parsing. A netstring can be represented in two different formats – as a length-prefixed string or as a series of hexadecimal numbers. A length-prefixed string format begins with ASCII digits that indicate the length of the data (number of bytes), then a colon, then the string itself, and a comma at the end. For example, the word "butterfly" gets encoded to "9:butterfly," and an empty string gets encoded to "0:,". In the hex format, the input string is first converted to UTF8 bytes and then these bytes are printed as hexadecimal values with a pair of angle brackets around them. In this case, the word "butterfly" gets encoded to <39 3a 62 75 74 74 65 72 66 6c 79 2c> and the empty line gets encoded to <30 3a 2c>. If your string contains several words, then it can be encoded in two ways – word-by-word or as a single long string. If you enter several text lines in the input, you can encode them as a whole or separately line-by-line. These encoding methods are easy to control via the "Encode Words" and "Multi-line" options. You can also activate the "Double Protection" option, which runs the netstring algorithm on the result the second time. If your string contains duplicate spaces, you can get rid of them via the "Skip Repeated Spaces" option. Also, you can prettify whitespace characters by replacing newlines with the "↵" symbol, regular spaces with the "⎵" symbol, and tabs with the "⇥" symbol. Stringabulous!
Netstring creator examples
Click to useEncode Three Words
In this example, we convert three simple words to a netstring. We encode each word individually and print them together. As you can see, each word is encoded as its letter count, followed by a colon character, the word itself, and a comma. The spaces between the words aren't encoded because it's easy to deduce where they go (in place of commas).
every moment matters
5:every,6:moment,7:matters,
Required options
Prefix the output by the
length of the string.
length of the string.
Convert each word to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Convert each line to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Recursively encode the output
string the second time.
string the second time.
Remove spaces that appear
more than once.
more than once.
Visualize line feeds as "↵".
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
Visualize spaces as "⎵".
Visualize tabs as "⇥".
Recursive Netstring
This example applies the double protection algorithm to the quote by Oscar Wilde. First, it creates netstrings of all words and then recursively creates another netstring from the previous netstring.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
66:4:This,8:suspense,2:is,9:terrible.,1:I,4:hope,2:it,4:will,5:last.,,
Required options
Prefix the output by the
length of the string.
length of the string.
Convert each word to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Convert each line to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Recursively encode the output
string the second time.
string the second time.
Remove spaces that appear
more than once.
more than once.
Visualize line feeds as "↵".
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
Visualize spaces as "⎵".
Visualize tabs as "⇥".
Music Genres
In this example, we encode a list of music genres and output them in the hexadecimal netstring notation. This notation is the hexadecimal representation of a regular netstring wrapped in angle brackets. First, each genre is converted to a netstring, then all characters of this netstring are converted to base-16, and are placed between angle brackets. As the multi-line mode is active, we get eight separate hex netstrings for each genre.
Rock
Electronic
Funk
Country
Latin
Reggae
Hip hop
House
<34 3a 52 6f 63 6b 2c>
<31 30 3a 45 6c 65 63 74 72 6f 6e 69 63 2c>
<34 3a 46 75 6e 6b 2c>
<37 3a 43 6f 75 6e 74 72 79 2c>
<35 3a 4c 61 74 69 6e 2c>
<36 3a 52 65 67 67 61 65 2c>
<37 3a 48 69 70 20 68 6f 70 2c>
<35 3a 48 6f 75 73 65 2c>
Required options
Convert the string to hex
numbers and wrap them
in angle braces.
numbers and wrap them
in angle braces.
Convert each word to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Convert each line to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Recursively encode the output
string the second time.
string the second time.
Remove spaces that appear
more than once.
more than once.
Visualize line feeds as "↵".
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
Visualize spaces as "⎵".
Visualize tabs as "⇥".
Bill Wilson's Quote
In this example, we have loaded a quote by Bill Wilson as the input. Unfortunately, it contains many extra spaces that we don't really want to process. To remove them, we have activated the skip-duplicate spaces option. We also process each line and each word individually. As there are four lines and four words per line, we get sixteen netstrings in the output.
To the world you
may be one person,
but to one person
you are the world.
2:To,3:the,5:world,3:you,
3:may,2:be,3:one,7:person,,
3:but,2:to,3:one,6:person,
3:you,3:are,3:the,6:world.,
Required options
Prefix the output by the
length of the string.
length of the string.
Convert each word to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Convert each line to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Recursively encode the output
string the second time.
string the second time.
Remove spaces that appear
more than once.
more than once.
Visualize line feeds as "↵".
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
Visualize spaces as "⎵".
Visualize tabs as "⇥".
List of Flowers
This example constructs a recursive netstring of a list of flowers. First, it counts the number of chars in every flower name and constructs a netstring for every flower. Then, it finds the length of this netstring and constructs a second netstring from it. The output format is selected as a hex-byte-string that prints the netstring chars as hex sequences between angle brackets.
Tulip
Bluebell
Rose
Snowdrop
Orchid
Peony
Chrysanthemum
Lily
Lotus
<38 3a 35 3a 54 75 6c 69 70 2c 2c>
<31 31 3a 38 3a 42 6c 75 65 62 65 6c 6c 2c 2c>
<37 3a 34 3a 52 6f 73 65 2c 2c>
<31 31 3a 38 3a 53 6e 6f 77 64 72 6f 70 2c 2c>
<39 3a 36 3a 4f 72 63 68 69 64 2c 2c>
<38 3a 35 3a 50 65 6f 6e 79 2c 2c>
<31 37 3a 31 33 3a 43 68 72 79 73 61 6e 74 68 65 6d 75 6d 2c 2c>
<37 3a 34 3a 4c 69 6c 79 2c 2c>
<38 3a 35 3a 4c 6f 74 75 73 2c 2c>
Required options
Convert the string to hex
numbers and wrap them
in angle braces.
numbers and wrap them
in angle braces.
Convert each word to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Convert each line to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Recursively encode the output
string the second time.
string the second time.
Remove spaces that appear
more than once.
more than once.
Visualize line feeds as "↵".
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
Visualize spaces as "⎵".
Visualize tabs as "⇥".
Holiday Checklist
In this example, we create one long netstring from nine shorter strings. The input contains different whitespaces and to make it more readable, we replace spaces with "⎵", tabs with "⇥", and newlines with "↵". Note that the regular space char has a length of 1 and contains one byte "0x20" but the UTF-8 symbol "⎵" is represented as three bytes "0xe2 0x8e 0xb5", so it has a length of 3. Similarly, tabs "⇥" have the length of 3 and so do newlines as "↵" has the length of 3.
passport ✓
sun cream ✗
swimming suit ✓
money ✓
medicine ✗
camera ✗
mobile phone ✓
a good book ✗
toothbrush ✓
176:passport⇥✓↵sun⎵cream⇥✗↵swimming⎵suit⇥✓↵money⇥⇥✓↵medicine⇥✗↵camera⇥⇥✗↵mobile⎵phone⇥✓↵a⎵good⎵book⇥✗↵toothbrush⇥✓,
Required options
Prefix the output by the
length of the string.
length of the string.
Convert each word to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Convert each line to a netstring
individually.
individually.
Recursively encode the output
string the second time.
string the second time.
Remove spaces that appear
more than once.
more than once.
Visualize line feeds as "↵".
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
(Works only when multi-line is off.)
Visualize spaces as "⎵".
Visualize tabs as "⇥".
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https://onlinestringtools.com/convert-string-to-netstring?input=every%20moment%20matters&string-form=True&encode-words=True&multi-line=False&double-protection=False&skip-repeated-spaces=False&beautify-newlines=False&beautify-spaces=False&beautify-tabs=False
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Convert a string to proper case.
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Align a string to the left.
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Find how many letters there are in a string.
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Find how many words there are in a string.
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counts the number of 8-bit units
and not the number of characters
in a string. Thus, some Unicode
symbols can correspond to two,
three, or four 8-bit units.