Node Reference for TextEncoder.prototype.encodeInto

method TextEncoder.prototype.encodeInto

Usage in Deno

import { TextEncoder } from "node:util";



TextEncoder.prototype.encodeInto(src: string,
dest: Uint8Array,
): EncodeIntoResult

UTF-8 encodes the src string to the dest Uint8Array and returns an object containing the read Unicode code units and written UTF-8 bytes.

const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const src = 'this is some data';
const dest = new Uint8Array(10);
const { read, written } = encoder.encodeInto(src, dest);

Parameters



src: string

The text to encode.



dest: Uint8Array

The array to hold the encode result.

Return Type

EncodeIntoResult