Examining ASCII

Question

How can I get the ASCII representation of hexadecimal values in the memory by examining in gdb?

The gdb command x/[repeatCount] [memoryAddress] gives me hexadecimal 32-bit values starting at memoryAddress repeatCount times but I want the readable text/String which is represented by this data. How do I do that? This page doesn't seem to tell.

For instance I get the following by examining:

0x41414141

What I want to see instead or as well is this:

AAAA

Like an ordinary Hex <-> ASCII converter.

Answer 1

Nevermind, I need to use the format letter s for String.

x/[repeatCount]s [memoryAddress]

Found by typing

help x

and reading the help documentation. <_<