Convert a Binary string sequence to ASCII text.
seq2str("010010000110010101101100011011000110111100100001");
or (with spaces)
seq2str("01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001");
Both will return "Hello!"
See also: str2seq.
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seq2str: Binary to Text
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| function seq2str( | |
| a // binary sequence | |
| ){ | |
| return a.replace( | |
| /(.{1,8}\s?)/g, // Find every 8 characters (and maybe a space) | |
| function(b){ // Convert these 8 characters to text | |
| return String.fromCharCode( // Convert character code to text | |
| parseInt(b,2) // Convert from base 2 to base 10 | |
| ) | |
| } | |
| ) | |
| } |
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| function(a){return a.replace(/(.{1,8}\s?)/g,function(b){return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(b,2))})} |
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| DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE | |
| Version 2, December 2004 | |
| Copyright (C) 2012 John Flesch <http://fles.ch/> | |
| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified | |
| copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long | |
| as the name is changed. | |
| DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE | |
| TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION | |
| 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. |
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| { | |
| "name": "seq2tr", | |
| "description": "Convert a binary string sequence to ASCII text.", | |
| "keywords": ["encode"] | |
| } |
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <title>seq2str</title> | |
| <pre>Expected value: Hello! | |
| Actual value: <span id="ret"></span></pre> | |
| <script> | |
| var myFunction = function(a){return a.replace(/(.{1,8}\s?)/g,function(b){return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(b,2))})} | |
| document.getElementById( "ret" ).innerHTML = myFunction("01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100001") | |
| </script> |
Maybe I missed something, but why {1,8} instead of just{8}?
It still works in case one removed the leading zeros but added the byte padding in form of spaces, for example "1001000 1100101 1101100 1101100 01101111 100001".
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Same applies here (plus you can lose the matches, as the first full matched expression will be the first argument anyway: