method Buffer.toString
Usage in Deno
import { type Buffer } from "node:buffer";
Buffer.toString(): string
Decodes buf to a string according to the specified character encoding inencoding. start and end may be passed to decode only a subset of buf.
If encoding is 'utf8' and a byte sequence in the input is not valid UTF-8,
then each invalid byte is replaced with the replacement character U+FFFD.
The maximum length of a string instance (in UTF-16 code units) is available as constants.MAX_STRING_LENGTH.
import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';
const buf1 = Buffer.allocUnsafe(26);
for (let i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
// 97 is the decimal ASCII value for 'a'.
buf1[i] = i + 97;
}
console.log(buf1.toString('utf8'));
// Prints: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
console.log(buf1.toString('utf8', 0, 5));
// Prints: abcde
const buf2 = Buffer.from('tést');
console.log(buf2.toString('hex'));
// Prints: 74c3a97374
console.log(buf2.toString('utf8', 0, 3));
// Prints: té
console.log(buf2.toString(undefined, 0, 3));
// Prints: té
optional
encoding: BufferEncoding = 'utf8'
The character encoding to use.
string