Binary

Additional Language Notes

1. Incomplete bytes are left-padded with zeros. Spaces are ignored, so the padding applies to the literal as a whole:

   0x[1 23] | to nuon
   # => 0x[0123]

2. Spaces can be used to improve readability. For example, 0x[ffff ffff].

3. In an octal literal, each byte is written as three octal digits between 000 and 377.

Common commands that can be used with binary

• into binary
• format bits to show the bits of a binary value (or a number) as a string of 0s and 1s
• bits subcommands (see help bits for a list)
• bytes subcommands (see help bytes for a list)
• encode, decode
• take
• chunks to split binary into individual bytes or groups