How to convert string and integer to binary in nodejs?-CodePudding

I have the following problems. I have an integer and a string. Both of them need to be converted into binary format. For the integer I found a solution that, as far as I can tell, works. The string on the other hand, I don't have a solid understanding of it.

String(16), as far as I understand, means something like Array<UInt8> and has a fixed length of 16. Am I correct? If so, is there a better way to converting them by hand built in in NodeJS?

const myNumber = 2
const myString = 'MyString'

const myNumberInBinary = toUInt16(myNumber) // eg. 0000000000000101
const myStringinBinary = toString16(myString) // I honestly don't know

function toUInt16(number) {
    let binaryString = Number(number).toString(2)
    while (binaryString.length < 16) {
        binaryString = '0'   binaryString
    }
    return binaryString
}

// TODO: implement
function toString16(string) {
    ...
    return binaryString
}

best regards

CodePudding user response：

You should loop through the string and do this on each character:

 let result = ""
 
 for (let i = 0; i < myString.length; i  ) {
      result  = myString[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(2)   " ";
  }