binaryfiles

What does \x00 mean in binary file?

An ASCII file might be read or interpreted as having NULL-terminated strings, carriage returns & line-feeds, or other control characters, that are intended to be read and acted on. For example, a text reader might look for a line of text, where a line is “however many characters you see before you get to a … Read more

How can you encode a string to Base64 in JavaScript?

You can use btoa() and atob() to convert to and from base64 encoding. There appears to be some confusion in the comments regarding what these functions accept/return, so… btoa() accepts a “string” where each character represents an 8-bit byte – if you pass a string containing characters that can’t be represented in 8 bits, it will probably break. This isn’t a … Read more

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