I downloaded it myself and dug into it. Seems the require line needs to be:
var isValid = require('utf-8-validate').Validation.isValidUTF8;
Hope that helps.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Bryon Trott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried that and still get an error that says isValid is not a function?
>
> C:\nodejs>node buftest.js
> buffer
> C:\nodejs\buftest.js:9
> if (isValid(buf1)){
> ^
>
> TypeError: isValid is not a function
> at Object.<anonymous> (C:\nodejs\buftest.js:9:5)
> at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
> at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
> at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
> at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
> at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
> at startup (node.js:139:18)
> at node.js:968:3
>
> 'use strict';
> var isValid = require('utf-8-validate').isValidUTF8;
> const buf1 = new Buffer('buffer');
>
> console.log(buf1.toString());
>
> if (isValid(buf1)){
> console.log('true')
>
> }
> else {
> console.log('false')
>
> };
>
>
> On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 9:46:24 PM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
>> In the above example, you just use: if (isValid(buf)) { ... }
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Bryon Trott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am new to node.js I am trying to use the module UTF-8-Validate to
>>> check a simple test buffer.
>>> https://www.npmjs.com/package/utf-8-validate
>>>
>>> However I am not sure how to call the function.
>>>
>>>
>>> 'use strict';
>>>
>>> var isValid = require('utf-8-validate').isValidUTF8;
>>>
>>> The module exposes 1 function:
>>> *isValidUTF8* <https://www.npmjs.com/package/utf-8-validate#isvalidutf8>
>>>
>>> Validate if the passed in buffer contains valid UTF-8 chars.
>>>
>>> bu.isValidUTF8(buffer);
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If anybody know how to do this or can point me to some sample code it
>>> would be very helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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