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If a DataView contains ASCII-encoded text, you can convert it to a string using the TextDecoder class.

const dv: DataView = ...;
const decoder = new TextDecoder();
const str = decoder.decode(dv);

See Docs > API > Binary Data for complete documentation on manipulating binary data with Bun.

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