pack / unpack functions for node.js

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Adam M-W picture Adam M-W · Apr 9, 2011 · Viewed 25.7k times · Source

Are there any modules that provide pack / unpack functionality for nodejs similar to python's struct module? I haven't found any specifically for node, and I'd assume that javascript implementations would be significantly slower.

Thanks.

Answer

clee picture clee · Apr 10, 2011

https://github.com/pgriess/node-jspack appears to be a straight-up port of Python's struct API for packing binary data, but it's implemented in JS. It doesn't appear to be packaged for npm yet.

https://github.com/substack/node-binary provides unpacking, also implemented in JS, and you can install it with npm install binary if you have npm installed.

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