>The hex viewer shows me a series of bytes, as hex characters, e.g.:
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>414243, which is equivalent to "ABC".
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>The hex viewer I only use (in this case) to examine the file format.
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>To do a "search-and-replace" (after loading the file with FileToStr()), I might search for the string chr(0x41) + chr(0x42) + chr(0x43), but I was wondering whether there was a less cumbersome form to convert hex digits (the way I see them in the hex viewer) into a standard string.

lcHex = "414243"
? STRCONV(lcHex, 16)