How to read a string about jbinary

[RReverser]

Did you check the API docs linked in README? https://github.com/jDataView/jBinary/wiki

[RReverser]

I'll close this as this is documented under Strings in the docs.

[Crauzer]

I read every single page of the docs in the wiki and I honestly still have no idea how your library works.

After hours of debugging and looking at the source I still cannot figure out how to read a string, or rather how to provide a length parameter to the read function as shown above.

The read function only accepts a type name and an offset, no mention of params for the provided type.

[Crauzer]

I'm also using TypeScript by the way, so your type definitions might be incorrect ? Since there is aboslutely no way to specify params in the read function for a given type

[RReverser]

I read every single page of the docs in the wiki and I honestly still have no idea how your library works.

https://github.com/jDataView/jBinary/wiki/Type-usage-syntax describes how to pass type params in general (['typeName', arg1, arg2, ..., argN]).
https://github.com/jDataView/jBinary/wiki/Standard-types#strings documents string type arguments to be passed using syntax above.
https://github.com/jDataView/jBinary/wiki/Typesets even has a detailed example, showing usage of strings among others.

[Crauzer]

I'm sorry but your docs honestly make no sense and don't match your type definitions, if you look at the first comment I made it shows the method signature in TypeScript for the read method.

It only accepts 2 arguments, type and offset, type can either be a string or a [string, string, number?] which does definitely not match anything in your docs. So I'm lost as to how I'm supposed to pass parameters into this function in a sane way.

[Crauzer]

It just seems like the function signature is missing a params: any[] argument

[RReverser]

I don't know where TS definitions you're seeing are coming from, and correspondingly can't comment on why they don't match the docs - the library itself doesn't have TS definitions.

But I've provided plenty of links above with examples, including specific example for strings:

jDataView/jBinary/wiki/Typesets even has a detailed example, showing usage of strings among others.

That page literally shows ['string0', 256] as an example of passing length.