can't figure out 'findallmem' syntax

[fenugrec]

I want to search all mem blocks for an ascii string; I have the docs open but the examples for "find" , "findallmem" are... scarce.

So , first try , findallmem 0x10000,"test",-1,user obviously doesn't work, syntax for "" expects hex digits. Fine; docs send me to String Formatting section.

s string pointer: "this is a string" (not recommended, use {utf8@address} instead)

I find this quite cryptic. I don't want a pointer, I want a string of bytes. If I wanted an address, why would I even bother specifying utf8 ? Ah, but these are formatters like C printf would use, and would i.e. 'render' data at a certain address, as UTF8. So, the opposite of what I need ? I still tried a bunch of combinations,

{s:test}
{s:"test"}
"{s:test}"
"{s:"test"}"
"{test}"
"{"test"}"
{ascii:test}
{ascii:"test"}

all giving me an unhelpful Failed to transform pattern .
How hard can this be ?

[mrexodia]

https://help.x64dbg.com/en/latest/commands/searching/findallmem.html

Specifically this section (emphasis added):

arg2 The byte pattern to search for. This byte pattern can contain wildcards (?) for example: EB0?90??8D. You can use String Formatting here.

The string formatting is allowed to use something like {mem;size@address} and search for a pattern that's in the memory in a script. Normally you would just hardcode the hex pattern like 11 22 33 44

[fenugrec]

Thanks. I was afraid that was going to be the answer, there is then no way to search for a string (the same way the GUI has a dialog that lets you enter plain ASCII / UTF strings) ? manually entering the hex pattern is... not appealing

[mrexodia]

Ah I see, that's indeed kind of an oversight/missing feature. I did a quick plugin you can use https://github.com/mrexodia/EncodeHex

{encode("Hello, world!", "utf-8")} should work:tm:

[fenugrec]

Wow, neat. Thanks for that. Maybe something to consider including natively, maybe along with the other "string formatters" ? I mean it would be a reasonable place to look for such a thing : )

[mrexodia]

Yeah, but there isn't a release coming any time soon...