Conversion of hex pairs to chars...best way?

[T. R. Ponn]

Hello!

Here's something I've done MANY times with HC over the years and I'm 
hoping there's a less time consuming way to accomplish it with Rev:

I have the need to convert mass quantities of lines of data in this form:

"5265766F6C7574696F6E", as an example.  They are pairs (base16) of:

"82_101_118_111_108_117_116_105_111_110", in base10 (underscores added 
here for clarification).  And they become:

"Revolution" in ASCII chars.

Now what I've *been* doing in Rev is something akin to:

put empty into whatEverOut
put "5265766F6C7574696F6E" into whatEver
  repeat with i=1 to the number of chars of whatEver
    put numToChar(baseConvert((char ((i*2)-1) to (i*2) of 
whatEver),16,10)) after whatEverOut
  end repeat
put whatEverOut

Is this a good way to do this, or is there something that can be done 
with a "repeat for each" form?  This ( similar) is used soooooo much in 
my app that it's bound to make a significant difference.  Oh...and 
occasionally I have to do this routine "in reverse".

Thanks in advance for any ideas you have!

Best Regards,

Tim Ponn