node.js Buffer data decode

Question

I am getting data from TCP into node.js. The data is in buffer format and looks like:

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How can I parse that data into normal strings, eg 12345

Thank you.

Answer 1

Node buffers have a toString method, here's the documentation on it http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.2/api/buffers.html#buffer.toString