Barcode Scanner Byte Array Conversion Node

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Has anyone created a node that would convert a byte array to a string value? I created several nodes that do the job but I was wondering if anyone has created a single node that would do it. Seems like it would be useful to a lot of people utilizing barcode scanners and USB HID. My nodes are based on this
https://github.com/riklaunim/pyusb-keyboard-alike/blob/master/keyboard_alike/mapping.py

Here is my code but the credit goes here: https://medium.com/coinmonks/iot-tutorial-read-tags-from-a-usb-rfid-reader-with-raspberry-pi-and-node-red-from-scratch-4554836be127

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    function stringFromArray(data)
  {
    var count = data.length;
    var str = "";
    
    for(var index = 0; index < count; index += 1)
      str += String.fromCharCode(data[index]);
    
    return str;
  }

Found this in google search. Would this help?

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I don't think so -- looks like the code is using a keyboard mapping, not byte->char mapping.

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Something interesting happened to me today when testing a barcode scanner.

I had set the serial input node to output as byte array. Conveniently, node-red seemed to interpret the byte array as a string and processed it as such through the rest of my nodes.