Function fromString

docs/app/js/sanddance-app.js:113000–113011

(string, encoding)

    return allocUnsafe(size);
};
function fromString(string, encoding) {
    if (typeof encoding !== "string" || encoding === "") encoding = "utf8";
    if (!Buffer.isEncoding(encoding)) throw new TypeError("Unknown encoding: " + encoding);
    var length = byteLength(string, encoding) | 0;
    var buf = createBuffer(length);
    var 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) {
    var length = array.length < 0 ? 0 : checked(array.length) | 0;
    var buf = createBuffer(length);