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If you need to work with low level stuff (say communications protocols, compression algorithms, stuff like that) you'll be needing an hex dump function sooner or later. Alex, from Alex on Linux, has a great hex dump function for Python and C.

I added an =NULL for caption, I don't use it.

void hex_dump(char *data, int size, char *caption=NULL)
{
    int i; // index in data...
    int j; // index in line...
    char temp[8];
    char buffer[128];
    char *ascii;
    memset(buffer, 0, 128);
    printf("---------> %s <--------- (%d bytes from %p)n", caption, size, data);
    // Printing the ruler...
    printf("        +0          +4          +8          +c            0   4   8   c   n");
    // Hex portion of the line is 8 (the padding) + 3 * 16 = 52 chars long
    // We add another four bytes padding and place the ASCII version...
    ascii = buffer + 58;
    memset(buffer, ' ', 58 + 16);
    buffer[58 + 16] = 'n';
    buffer[58 + 17] = '';
    buffer[0] = '+';
    buffer[1] = '0';
    buffer[2] = '0';
    buffer[3] = '0';
    buffer[4] = '0';
    for (i = 0, j = 0; i < size; i++, j++)
    {
        if (j == 16)
        {
            printf("%s", buffer);
            memset(buffer, ' ', 58 + 16);
            sprintf(temp, "+%04x", i);
            memcpy(buffer, temp, 5);
            j = 0;
        }
        sprintf(temp, "%02x", 0xff & data[i]);
        memcpy(buffer + 8 + (j * 3), temp, 2);
        if ((data[i] > 31) && (data[i] < 127))
            ascii[j] = data[i];
        else
            ascii[j] = '.';
    }
    if (j != 0)
        printf("%s", buffer);
}