Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Writing to Buffers

You cannot extend the size of a Buffer object after it has been created, but you can write data to any location in the buffer. As described in Table 5.2, there are several methods you can use when writing to buffers.

Table 5.2 Methods for writing to Buffer objects

To illustrate writing to buffers, the code in Listing 5.1 defines a buffer, fills it with zeros, writes some text at the beginning using write() at line 4, and adds some additional text that alters part of the existing buffer via write(string, offset, length) at line 6. Then in line 8 it adds a + to the end by directly setting the value of an index. Figure 5.1 shows ...