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Windows Notepad Cache file parser written in the pattern language for the ImHex hex editor
// Thanks to AbdulRhman Alfaifi's blog post that describes the format!
// https://u0041.co/posts/articals/exploring-windows-artifacts-notepad-files/
import type.leb128;
import type.time;
import type.magic;
import std.time;
using uLEB128 = type::uLEB128;
enum Encodings: u8 {
ANSI = 0x01,
UTF_16LE = 0x02,
UTF_16BE = 0x03,
UTF_8BOM = 0x04,
UTF_8 = 0x05,
};
enum LineEndings: u8 {
CRLF = 0x01,
CR = 0x02,
LF = 0x03,
};
struct ConfigBlock {
bool word_wrap;
bool rtl;
bool show_unicode;
uLEB128 version;
u16 unknown;
};
struct UnsavedChunk {
uLEB128 cursor_position;
uLEB128 deletion_number;
uLEB128 addition_number;
char16 chars[addition_number];
char crc32[4] [[format("hash_format"), comment("CRC32 hash of the entire unsaved chunk structure")]];
};
struct Notepad_File {
type::Magic<"NP\0"> signature [[comment("File signature")]];
bool is_saved;
if ( is_saved ) {
uLEB128 path_length;
char16 path[path_length] [[comment("Path of saved file on disk")]];
uLEB128 file_size;
Encodings encoding;
LineEndings line_endings;
uLEB128 last_write [[format("format_filetime")]];
char sha256[32] [[format("hash_format")]];
u8 unknown1;
}
u8 unknown2;
uLEB128 selection_start;
uLEB128 selection_end;
ConfigBlock config_block;
type::uLEB128 content_length;
char16 content[content_length];
bool contain_unsaved_data;
char crc32[4] [[format("hash_format")]];
UnsavedChunk unsaved_chunks[while(!std::mem::eof())];
};
fn hash_format(auto bytes) {
str hash_hex;
for(u8 i=0, i < sizeof(bytes), i+=1) {
hash_hex = hash_hex + std::format("{:02X}",bytes[i]);
}
return hash_hex;
};
fn format_filetime(uLEB128 data) {
// We will only support dates back to the epoch
std::time::Time time64 = std::time::to_utc((data / 10000000.0) - 11644473600.0);
return std::time::format(time64, "%c");
};
Notepad_File file @ $;
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