Handlebars Helper Function: stringToHex
Converts each character in a string to its hexadecimal equivalent.
This helper is available in the Winter ’27 release of Marketing Cloud Next.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
sourceString | String | Required. The string to convert. |
charSet | String | The character set to use. Specify as a named parameter with a value of UTF-8 or UTF-16. The default is UTF-8. |
The function returns a hexadecimal string that represents the encoded characters in sourceString.
This example converts a string of text to its UTF-8 hexadecimal representation.
The function returns:
This example converts the same string, but specifies UTF-16 encoding. Each character requires more bytes in UTF-16, so the resulting string is longer.
The function returns: