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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/buffer.md | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md index fbd7ace6b6..2842b6d7b0 100644 --- a/doc/api/buffer.md +++ b/doc/api/buffer.md @@ -1279,9 +1279,10 @@ changes: * `value` {string|Buffer|Uint8Array|integer} What to search for. * `byteOffset` {integer} Where to begin searching in `buf`. **Default:** `0`. -* `encoding` {string} The encoding of `value` if `value` is a string. - **Default:** `'utf8'`. -* Returns: {integer} The index of the first occurrence of `value` in `buf` or +* `encoding` {string} If `value` is a string, this is the encoding used to + determine the binary representation of the string that will be searched for in + `buf`. **Default:** `'utf8'`. +* Returns: {integer} The index of the first occurrence of `value` in `buf`, or `-1` if `buf` does not contain `value`. If `value` is: @@ -1381,13 +1382,14 @@ changes: * `value` {string|Buffer|Uint8Array|integer} What to search for. * `byteOffset` {integer} Where to begin searching in `buf`. **Default:** [`buf.length`]` - 1`. -* `encoding` {string} If `value` is a string, this is its encoding. - **Default:** `'utf8'`. -* Returns: {integer} The index of the last occurrence of `value` in `buf` or `-1` - if `buf` does not contain `value`. +* `encoding` {string} If `value` is a string, this is the encoding used to + determine the binary representation of the string that will be searched for in + `buf`. **Default:** `'utf8'`. +* Returns: {integer} The index of the last occurrence of `value` in `buf`, or + `-1` if `buf` does not contain `value`. -Identical to [`buf.indexOf()`], except `buf` is searched from back to front -instead of front to back. +Identical to [`buf.indexOf()`], except the last occurrence of `value` is found +rather than the first occurrence. ```js const buf = Buffer.from('this buffer is a buffer'); |