Reading bytes from a JavaScript string

Question

I have a string containing binary data in JavaScript. Now I want to read, for example, an integer from it. So I get the first 4 characters, use charCodeAt, do s

Answer 1

borgars solution improvement:

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do {
      st.unshift( ch & 0xFF );  // push byte to stack
      ch = ch >> 8;          // shift value down by 1 byte
    }  
    while ( ch );
    // add stack contents to result
    // done because chars have "wrong" endianness
    re = re.concat( st );
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