September 2017 Update

Task/CRC-32/Visual-Basic-.NET/crc-32-2.visual

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+    ' Returns a Byte Array from a string of ASCII characters.
+    Function Str2BA(Str As String) As Byte()
+        Return System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Str)
+    End Function
+
+    ' Returns a Hex string from an UInteger, formatted to a number of digits,
+    '  adding leading zeros If necessary.
+    Function HexF(Value As UInteger, Digits As Integer) As String
+        HexF = Hex(Value)
+        If Len(HexF) < Digits Then HexF = StrDup(Digits - Len(HexF), "0") & HexF
+    End Function
+
+    ' Tests Crc32 class
+    Sub Test()
+        Dim Str As String = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
+        Debug.Print("Input = """ & Str & """")
+        ' Convert string to Byte Array, compute crc32, and display formatted result
+        Debug.Print("Crc32 = " & HexF(Crc32.cs(Str2BA(Str)), 8))
+        ' This next code demonstrates continuing a crc32 calculation when breaking the input
+        ' into pieces, such as processing a large file by a series of buffer reads.
+        Crc32.cs(Str2BA(Mid(Str, 1, 20)))
+        Debug.Print("Crc32 = " & HexF(Crc32.cs(Str2BA(Mid(Str, 21)), False), 8))
+    End Sub