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Buffer Alloc
A ponyfill for Buffer.alloc
.
Works as Node.js: v7.0.0
Works on Node.js: v0.10.0
Installation
npm install --save buffer-alloc
Usage
const alloc = require('buffer-alloc')
console.log(alloc(4))
//=> <Buffer 00 00 00 00>
console.log(alloc(6, 0x41))
//=> <Buffer 41 41 41 41 41 41>
console.log(alloc(10, 'linus', 'utf8'))
//=> <Buffer 6c 69 6e 75 73 6c 69 6e 75 73>
API
alloc(size[, fill[, encoding]])
size
<Integer> The desired length of the newBuffer
fill
<String> | <Buffer> | <Integer> A value to pre-fill the newBuffer
with. Default:0
encoding
<String> Iffill
is a string, this is its encoding. Default:'utf8'
Allocates a new Buffer
of size
bytes. If fill
is undefined
, the Buffer
will be zero-filled.
See also
- buffer-alloc-unsafe A ponyfill for
Buffer.allocUnsafe
- buffer-fill A ponyfill for
Buffer.fill
- buffer-from A ponyfill for
Buffer.from