Translating From Binary To English

Binary Agents.

Overview

In this article, I will be explain my code or algorithm that I wrote to translate binary codes to english words or sentances. In computer science A binary code represents text, computer processor instructions, or other data using any two-symbol system, but often the binary number system’s 0 and 1. The binary code assigns a pattern of binary digits (bits) to each character. For example, a binary string of eight bits can represent any of 256 possible values and can therefore represent a variety of different items.

Instructions

Return an English translated sentence of the passed binary string.

The binary string will be space separated.

Here are some helpful links:

String.prototype.charCodeAt()

String.fromCharCode()

My approach

I was given a string of binary codes, between all the codes there spaces so in order for me to access each code I had to divide the codes in to an array, so I used the javascript’s built in function .split() which if returned will be an array, so I stored that array in a variable that I created called splittedStr. I then accessed every code in “splittedStr” using a for-loop. From there, I declared a new variable titled translation (an empty array) that I used in my for-loop to .push() in String.fromCharCode(the binary code), this the part where I access the character represented by the binary code using the parseInt method to convert the string binary digits to an integer. Inside the parseInt method, I used radix, base number of unique digits, including zero, used to represent numbers in a positional numeral system.

Code

function binaryAgent(str) {
   var translation = [];
   splittedStr = str.split(' ');
   for (var i in splittedStr){
    translation.push(String.fromCharCode(parseInt(splittedStr[i],2)));
   }

    return translation.join('');
}

    binaryAgent("01000001 01110010 01100101 01101110 00100111 
    01110100 00100000 01100010 01101111 01101110 01100110 01101001 
    01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 
    00100001 00111111");