Yes, that helped. The function now works.
On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 4:24:02 PM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> 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]
> <javascript:>> 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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