bug(`cast`): fails in encoding of bytes if non-hexadecimal values passed

[Amit0617]

Component

Cast

Have you ensured that all of these are up to date?

• Foundry
• Foundryup

What version of Foundry are you on?

forge 0.2.0 (62cdea8 2024-07-23T00:19:34.618350138Z)

What command(s) is the bug in?

cast calldata

Operating System

Linux

Describe the bug

Try following command

cast calldata "sam(bytes)" dave

It fails parsing argument value because of v.
Technically, for non-hexadecimal values, it should be UTF8-encoding (ASCII values) padded right to 32 bytes. Look at third example https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/abi-spec.html#examples

[zerosnacks]

Hi @Amit0617 thanks for flagging this

Cast supports: cast calldata "sam(string)" dave, dave is not a valid bytes sequence as it is not hex encoded

Marking as resolved

[Amit0617]

I was unsure about that, but probably that example in documentation is wrong.