TextDecoder

interface

interface TextDecoder extends TextDecoderCommon

Represents a decoder for a specific text encoding, allowing you to convert binary data into a string given the encoding.

Example

const decoder = new TextDecoder('utf-8');
const buffer = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
const decodedString = decoder.decode(buffer);
console.log(decodedString); // Outputs: "Hello"

variable

var TextDecoder: { … }

The constructor object for TextDecoder, used to create a decoder for a given text encoding (UTF-8 by default) that turns byte streams into strings.

Constructors

`constructor`

new TextDecoder(label?: string, options?: TextDecoderOptions): TextDecoder

Properties

`prototype`

readonly prototype: TextDecoder

Methods

`decode`

decode(input?: AllowSharedBufferSource, options?: TextDecodeOptions): string

Turns binary data, often in the form of a Uint8Array, into a string given the encoding.