Introduction
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about data on the lower-level of the stack, this is the area where data stops being simple strings and starts looking more like random numbers, *e.g. (59:6f:75:20:63:72:61:63:6b:65:64:20:74:68:65:20:63:6f:64:65:21)
I’ve been wondering a lot about this data, because I do a lot of server communication with my applications, knowing encoding should come in handy!
So a couple of ideas brewing up inside, such as my own compression algorithms, encryption algorithms and also plans to learn low level languages.
I thought I would share the code I’ve been playing with.
The following should allow for a javascript developer to do the majority of encoding required.
The sprinkle
1 2 3 4 5 6 | var letter = "A" // Always decimal 65 in ASCII var byteCode = letter.charCodeAt(0); // Get the byteCode (decimal) = 65 var character = String.fromCharCode(byteCode); // Return ASCII character/symbol var binaryCode = byteCode.toString(2); // Convert to base 2 (Binary) var hexCode = character.charCodeAt(0).toString(16); // Convert to base 16 (Hexadecimal) console.log(character+" "+byteCode+" 0x"+hexCode+" "+binaryCode); |
Thanks to Rezoner for comments! On using toString which I understand now!
Demo of this code in use can be viewed here:
http://ajamdonut.com/sprinkles/hexfun.html?forcing=true#adam
All source can be duplicated, sold, expanded upon, published or used at your own risk and you accept that there may be inaccuracies, you agree I am not responsible for any damages implementing this code could cause.
*If you crack the code let me know in comment!
Hiho mate.
You can use of Number.toString also make for converting decimal to binary.
Examples:
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// decToBin
temp = 123;
temp.toString(2);
// hexToDec
temp = 0xff;
// or
temp = parseInt("0xfa32");
Ugly typo
Of course I meant “Make use of”
Updated and I understand it a lot more now! Preparing a new write up!
Thats much better and stops the extra 0′s padding issue, thanks! I will add amend soon.