JavaScript · Typed arrays and encoding

Uint8Array

A view of bytes as unsigned 8-bit integers.

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Syntax

new Uint8Array(buffer)

Example

Try it

const bytes = new Uint8Array([72, 105]);
console.log(String.fromCharCode(...bytes));

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