BinaryHelper

Source

index.js
/**
* Converts a binary buffer in an ArrayBuffer to a string.
*
* Note this does not take encoding into consideration, so don't
* expect proper Unicode or any other encoding.
*/
function arrayBufferToString(arrayBuffer) {
const decoder = new TextDecoder('latin1');
return decoder.decode(arrayBuffer);
}

/**
* Extracts binary data out of a file ArrayBuffer given a prefix/suffix.
*/
function extractBinary(arrayBuffer, prefixRegex, suffixRegex = null) {
const str = arrayBufferToString(arrayBuffer);

const prefixMatch = prefixRegex.exec(str);
if (!prefixMatch) {
return { text: str };
}

const dataStartIndex = prefixMatch.index + prefixMatch[0].length;
const strFirstHalf = str.substring(0, dataStartIndex);
let retVal = null;

const suffixMatch = suffixRegex ? suffixRegex.exec(str) : null;
if (suffixMatch) {
const strSecondHalf = str.substr(suffixMatch.index);
retVal = {
text: strFirstHalf + strSecondHalf,
binaryBuffer: arrayBuffer.slice(dataStartIndex, suffixMatch.index),
};
} else {
// no suffix, so just take all the data starting from dataStartIndex
retVal = {
text: strFirstHalf,
binaryBuffer: arrayBuffer.slice(dataStartIndex),
};
}

return retVal;
}

export default {
arrayBufferToString,
extractBinary,
};