JavaScript · Typed arrays and encoding

DataView

Reads and writes numbers of various widths and endianness from an ArrayBuffer.

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Syntax

new DataView(buffer)

Example

Try it

const view = new DataView(new ArrayBuffer(4));
view.setInt32(0, 42);
console.log(view.getInt32(0));

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