Function slowToString

index.js:481–549

(encoding, start, end)

Buffer.byteLength = byteLength

function slowToString (encoding, start, end) {
  let loweredCase = false

  // No need to verify that "this.length <= MAX_UINT32" since it's a read-only
  // property of a typed array.

  // This behaves neither like String nor Uint8Array in that we set start/end
  // to their upper/lower bounds if the value passed is out of range.
  // undefined is handled specially as per ECMA-262 6th Edition,
  // Section 13.3.3.7 Runtime Semantics: KeyedBindingInitialization.
  if (start === undefined || start < 0) {
    start = 0
  }
  // Return early if start > this.length. Done here to prevent potential uint32
  // coercion fail below.
  if (start > this.length) {
    return ''
  }

  if (end === undefined || end > this.length) {
    end = this.length
  }

  if (end <= 0) {
    return ''
  }

  // Force coercion to uint32. This will also coerce falsey/NaN values to 0.
  end >>>= 0
  start >>>= 0

  if (end <= start) {
    return ''
  }

  if (!encoding) encoding = 'utf8'

  while (true) {
    switch (encoding) {
      case 'hex':
        return hexSlice(this, start, end)

      case 'utf8':
      case 'utf-8':
        return utf8Slice(this, start, end)

      case 'ascii':
        return asciiSlice(this, start, end)

      case 'latin1':
      case 'binary':
        return latin1Slice(this, start, end)

      case 'base64':
        return base64Slice(this, start, end)

      case 'ucs2':
      case 'ucs-2':