stringify-buffer

Converts a buffer a collection of strings, one for each possible encoding.

const stringify = require('stringify-buffer')
const buf = Buffer.from('Hello ☃')
console.log(stringify(buf))

{ ascii: 'Hello b\u0018\u0003',
  utf8: 'Hello ☃',
  utf16le: '效汬飢',
  binary: 'Hello ☃',
  base64: 'SGVsbG8g4piD',
  hex: '48656c6c6f20e29883' }

Installation

npm install stringify-buffer

API

stringifyBuffer

Stringifies the given buffer once for each encoding and adds the result a hash.

Parameters

• buf Buffer the buffer to stringify
• encodings Array<string>? the encodings to be used, if not supplied all valid encodings are used

Returns Object<string, string> a hash with a string value of the buffer for each of the supplied encodings

stringifyBuffer.encodings

Returns an array of all valid Buffer encodings that are supported. This is the same array that is used if no encodings is passed to @see stringifyBuffers.

Returns Array<string> all valid Buffer encodings

License

MIT