stream-to-c-header-char-array

Provides a handy command-line interface for writing char array C-headers as well as a Javascript API.

Installation

Install locally for using the Javascript API or the CLI in npm scripts:

npm install stream-to-c-header-char-array

Or globally to run the CLI from anywhere:

npm install -g stream-to-c-header-char-array

Usage

Usage: stream-to-c-header-char-array [options] <array-identifier>

Options:

  -h, --help     output usage information
  -V, --version  output the version number

Example of using the CLI:

echo ABCDEFG | stream-to-c-header-char-array alphabet > alphabet.h

or using the Node.js module:

var transformToCharArray = require('stream-to-c-header-char-array');
 
fs.createReadStream('script.js').pipe(transformToCharArray('scriptString')).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('scriptString.h'));

Why?

I wanted to embed some javascript into a C program. xxd can do this on Linux but I needed a cross-platform solution.

Copyright

stream-to-c-header-char-array - Provides a handy command-line interface for writing char array C-headers.

Written in 2016 by Jesper Oskarsson [e-mail]

To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.

You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along with this software. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.