Function fromString

index.js:232–254

(string, encoding)

}

function fromString (string, encoding) {
  if (typeof encoding !== 'string' || encoding === '') {
    encoding = 'utf8'
  }

  if (!Buffer.isEncoding(encoding)) {
    throw new TypeError('Unknown encoding: ' + encoding)
  }

  const length = byteLength(string, encoding) | 0
  let buf = createBuffer(length)

  const actual = buf.write(string, encoding)

  if (actual !== length) {
    // Writing a hex string, for example, that contains invalid characters will
    // cause everything after the first invalid character to be ignored. (e.g.
    // 'abxxcd' will be treated as 'ab')
    buf = buf.slice(0, actual)
  }

  return buf
}

function fromArrayLike (array) {
  const length = array.length < 0 ? 0 : checked(array.length) | 0