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The buffer-equal npm package is a simple utility for checking if two Node.js Buffer or Uint8Array instances contain the same bytes. It is primarily used for comparing buffers in a way that is both efficient and straightforward.
Buffer Equality Check
This feature allows you to compare two buffers to determine if they are equal. It returns true if they are equal, false otherwise.
const bufferEqual = require('buffer-equal');
const buf1 = Buffer.from('hello world');
const buf2 = Buffer.from('hello world');
const buf3 = Buffer.from('goodbye');
console.log(bufferEqual(buf1, buf2)); // true
console.log(bufferEqual(buf1, buf3)); // false
This package offers a similar functionality to buffer-equal. It provides a method to compare two Node.js Buffer or Uint8Array objects for equality. The difference is mainly in the implementation and possibly in performance characteristics.
Return whether two buffers are equal.
var bufferEqual = require('buffer-equal');
console.dir(bufferEqual(
new Buffer([253,254,255]),
new Buffer([253,254,255])
));
console.dir(bufferEqual(
new Buffer('abc'),
new Buffer('abcd')
));
console.dir(bufferEqual(
new Buffer('abc'),
'abc'
));
output:
true
false
undefined
var bufferEqual = require('buffer-equal');
Return whether the two buffers a
and b
are equal.
If a
or b
is not a buffer, return undefined
.
With npm do:
npm install buffer-equal
MIT
FAQs
return whether two buffers are equal
We found that buffer-equal demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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